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ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN. 




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surrender it?" ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 

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ftSSASSINATION OF PRESfDEKT LINCOLN. 

LAST HOURS AND DEATH-BED SCENES OF THE PRESIDENT. 
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^^ATFEMPT OF 1MTE CONSPIRATORS TO MURDER 
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THE TERRIBLE TRAGEDY AT WASHINGTON 

ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN. 



THE ASSASSINATION OP THE PRESIDENT.— A CAREPULLY 
PLANNED CONSPIRACY. 

A CRIME was perpetrated in Washington on Friday night, April 14th, 1865, that 
will startle not only the people of the United States, but the whole civilised world. 
The President of the United States, sitting with his wife in a box in one of the 
Washington Theatres, was shot by an assassin, who, by the only exclamation he 
appears to have uttered, must be one of the secessionists whom the President has 
been most earnestly endeavoring to protect from the just retribution due to them 
for their agency in their wicked rebellion. During a pause in one of the scenes the 
assassin shot the President in the head, making a mortal wound, and then flour- 
ishing a drawn dagger, he exclaimed, " Sic semper Tyrannts,"* (the motto of the 
State of Virginia), rushed out of the back of the theatre, mounted a horse in wait- 
ing, and escaped. The crime appears not to have been the only one of the night, 
for a further despatch announces that an attempt was also made to assassinate 
the Secretary of State. At first blush, this murderous business would appear to 
be the work of a madman, but the particulars of the fearful outrage perpetrated 
on the President, and the simultaneous attack on Mr. Seward, show it to have 
been a carefully planned conspiracy, in which a number of murderous confeder- 
ates must have been concerned. 

This will be startling and terrible news to the country now in the midst of its 
rejoicings over the near prospect of peace, and ranging itself under the lead of 
Mr. Lincoln upon the side of mercy, forbearance and pardon towards those whose 
murderous partisans have struck him his death-blow. Nothing short of the in- 
terposition of Providence working upon the hearts of the people will be able to 
avert the instinctive impulse of the nation to punish this crime by some signal 
act of retribution that it sickens the heart to contemplate. 

It is impossible to give a rational motive to the villains concerned in the mur- 
derous plot. Of all men in the United States, the traitors and rebels who have 
been in arms for four years in their effort to destroy the Republic, owe most to 
the kindness of heart, the conscientious endeavor to be just, and the resolute pur- 
pose to restore the fraternal relations of the people of the two sections of the 
country which actuated Mr. Lincoln from the day of his first inauguration to his 
dying hour. In every stage of the war which they brought on by their unhal- 

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The President was very cheerfol and hopefol H-e spoke very kincDy o! General 
liCe aad otliers of the confederacy, and liie eEtablMuBeot of the gOTenmient of 
Tirarmia. 

All tie memberg of the cahmet, except Mr. Seirard, are now in attendance upon 
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THE PHESIDSXx S COXDITIOIf. 

Washington, April 15, 2.30 A. M- — The President is still aUre, but is growing 
weaker. The ball is lodg-e>d in his brain, three iaches from where it entered the 
skulL He remains insensible and his condition is ntterly hopeless. The Tice- 
President has been to see him, bnt all company except the Cabinet, hie ikmily, 
•ad a few friends, are rigidly exdnded. 

L*rge crowds stUl contincte in the street is near to the house as the line ©f 
fnards will allow. 



SECOIOD OFFICIAIj GAZETTE. 

Waahm^cn AprH 15, 3 A. M. — Majob-Gejtesal Dix, New Yoek. — The I*reai- 
4ent stiO breatiies, bnt is quite insensible, as he has been erer since he was shot. 
H« eTide&iiy did not oee the person who shot him. but was looking on tie stage, 
as he was approaeifted b^mid. 

Mr. Seward has lallied, aed it is hoped may lire. Frederick Seward's condition 
is Tery critical. The mttfridwit vho was present was staltbed thivia^ the hnaga_ 
and is not expected to live. - Tlie wonai^ ot Maj«' C e wiJ are ao* n rii wii 

Lnrestigation Etron^lj iodicates J. Wilfera Bootii. as U^ mi i iimiIb «f Hk Prea* 
dent. Whether it was tbtt same or a '^Terent perBODi filial; attempibed to mcrdo' 
Mr. Seward raaains in doobL 

Chief JuBtaoe Garto' is eagag^ in taking the eridenee. Erery exertion has 
beea niade to ^erisit the escape of the mnrderer. His horse has been found b 
the road near WaEiiington. Enwur IL Suorroir, Secretary of War. 



THE ASSASSINS. 



THIRD OFFICIAL GAZETTE. 

Washington April 15. 4.10. A. M. — ^M.iJOE-GEjrESAi. Dix, New Toxi. The 

President continues insensible and is sinking. 

Secretary Seward remains without change. 

Fiederick Seward's stall is fractured in two places, besides a aeweie cut upcn 
the head. The attendant is still alive but hopeless. Ma; or Seward's wounds are 
are not dangerous. 

It is now ascertained, with reasonable cenainty, that two assa&sins were engaged 
in the horrible crime, J. Wilkes Booth being the one that shot the Fresideiit. 
The other is a companion of his, whose name is not known. 

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Becond son of the Secretary, who attempted to arrest him, but was Btrack on ik» 
head with a billy, but not seriously injured. 

At this late hour I am informed by the Secretary's physician that no arteries 
have been struck, and that the Secretary will recover. 

General Grant fortunately left for the North this afternoon, and, doubtless by 
his absence, has escaped the machinations of conspirators. 

Secretaries Stanton and Wells also escaped the plot, as well as the remaining 
wembers of the Cabinet. 

These are the briefest details of this tragic night. One arrest was made in the 
theatre of a man who said he knew all about the plot, but as yet the assassins 
oave not been arrested. It is believed that a deep conspiracy is on foot to assaa- 
einate the remaining leading members of the Government. 

It is now 12.30, and the excitement has not abated in the least ; crowds we 
OTPrywhere and the whole city is in the streets. 



ANOTHER A-CCOXJisrT. 



ASSASSINATION OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. 



ATTEMPTED MUEDEE OF THE SECRETAEY OF STATE. 



NO HOPE FOR THE PRESIDENT'S LIFE. 



ESCAPE OF THE ASSASSINS, 

Washington, April 14. — The President of the United States was shot while at- 
tending at Ford's Theatre to-night. It is feared that the wounds are mortal. 

THE PARTICULARS. 

Washington, April 14. — President Lincoln and his wife, together with other 
friends, this evening visited Ford's Theatre for the purpose of witnessing the 
performance of the "American Cousin." 

It was announced in the papers that General Grant would also be present, but 
that gentleman instead took the late train of cars for New Jersey. 

The theatre was densely crowded, and everybody seem, delighted with the 
scene before them. 

During the third act, and while there was a temporary pause for one of the 
actors to enter, the sharp report of a pistol was lieard, which merely attracted 
attention, but suggested nothing serious, until a man rushed to the front of the 
Picsident's box waving a long dagger in his right hand, and exclaiming, Sic sem- 
per Tyrannis, and immediately leaped from the box which was of the second 
tier, to the stage beneath, and ran across to the opposite side, thus making his 
escape, amid the bewilderment of the audience, from the rear of the theatre and 
iiiounting a horse fled. 

ITie screams of Mrs. Lincoln first disclosed the fact to the audience that the 
President had been shot, then all present rose to their, feet, rushing toward* th«v 
stage, many exclaiming, " Hang him ! hang him !" 



26 THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN. 

The excitement was one of the wildest possible description, and of course tliere 
was an abrupt termination of the theatrical performance. 

There was a rush towards the presidential boi, when cries were heard, " Stand 
back !" " Give him air I" " Has any one stimulants ?" On a hasty examinatiou 
it was found that the President had been shot through the head above and back 
of the temporal bone, and that some of the brain was oozing out. 

He was removed to a private house opposite to the theatre, and the Surgeon 
General of the Army and other surgeons were sent for to attend to his condition. 

On an examination of the private box, blood was discovered on the back of 
the cushioned rocking-chair on which the President had been sitting, also on the 
partition and on the floor. A common single-barrelled pocket-pistol was foxmd 
on the carpet. 

A mihtary guard was placed in front of the private residence to which the 
President had been conveyed. 

An immense crowd gathered in front of it, all deeply anxious to learn the con- 
dition of the President, It had been previously announced that the wound was 
mortal, but all hoped otherwise. The shock to the community was terrible. 

At midnight the Cabinet, with Messrs. Summer, Colfax and Famsworth, Judge 
Carter, Govenor Oglesby, Gen. Meigs, Col. Hay, and a few personal friends, with 
Surgeon-General Barnes and his medical associates, were around his bedside. 



THE PEESIDENT IN A DYING CONDITION. 

Midnight. — The President was in a state of syncope, totally insensible ani 
breathing hardly, the blood oozing from the wound at the back of his head. 

The Surgeons were exhausting every possible effort of medical skill, but all 
hope was gone. 

The parting of his family with the dying President is too sad for description. 

The President and Mrs. Lincoln did not start to the theatre till fifteen minute* 
after 8 o'clock. Speaker Colfax was at the White House at the time, and the 
President stated to him that he was going, although Mrs. Lincoln had not been 
•well, because the papers had advertised that Gen. Grant and they were tD be 
present, and as Gen. Grant had gone North, he did not wish the audience to be 
disappointed. 

The President went with apparent reluctance, and urged Mr. Colfax to go with. 
him ; but that gentleman had made other engagements, and, with Mr. A shmun, 
of Massachusetts, bade him good-bye. 



ATTEMPED ASSASSINATION OF SECEETAEY SEWABD. 

When the excitement at the theatre was at its wildest height, reports were cir- 
enlated that Secretary Seward had also been assassinated. On reaching this gen- 
tleman's residence a crowd and military guard were found at the door, and on 
entering it was ascertained that the reports were based upon truth ; everybody 
there was so excited that scarcely an intelligible account coxdd be gathered, but 
the facts are substantially as follows : 

At ten o'clock P.M. a man rang the bell, and the call having been answered by 
a colored servant, he said he had come from Dr. Verdi, Secretary Seward's family 
physician, \rith a prescription, at the same time holding in his hand a small piec* 



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of folded paper, and saying in answer to a refusal that he must see the Secreta^, 
as he was entrusted witli a particular direction concerning the medicine. He 
still insisted on going up. although repeatedly informed that no one could enter 
the chamber. The man pushed the servant aside and walked qmckly to the 
Secretary's room, and was there met by Mr. Frederick W. Seward, of whom he 
demanded to see the Secretary, making the same representation which he did to 
7 the servant What further passed in the way of colloquy is not known, but tl^.9 
' man struck him in the head with a billy, severely injuring the skull and fellmg 
him almost senseless. The assassin then rushed into the chamber and attacked 
Major Seward, Pa:^Tnaster in the United States Army, and Mr. Hansell, a Mes- 
senger of the State Department and two male nurses, disablmg them all. He 
then rushed upon the Secretary, who was lying in bed in the same room, and in- 
flicted three stabs in tlie neck, but severing, it is hoped, no arteries. 

The assassin then rushed down-stairs, mounted his horse at the door and rode 
off before an alarm could be soimded, and in the same manner as the assassm of 
the President. It is believed the injuries of the Secretary are not fatal, nor those 
of the others, although both the Secretary and the Assistant Secretary are very 

seriously injured. , .^ n •♦ 

Secretary Stanton and Welles, and other prominent of&cers of the Governmeat, 

called at Secretary Seward's house to inquire into his condition, and there hear- 

fng of the assassination of the President, proceeded to the house where he wa« 

Iving, exhibiting, of course, intense anxiety and solicitude. 

A immense crowd was gathered in front of the President's house, and a s rong 

guard also stationed there, many persons evidently supposing that he would be 

brought to his home. . 

Tlie entire city to-night presented a scene of wild excitement, accompamed by 
violent expressions of indignation and the profoundest sorrow. Many shed tears. 

The military authorities have despatched patrols in every direction, m order, 
if possible, to arrest the assassin, while the Metropohtan Police are alike vigilant 
for the same purpose. 

The attack, both at the theatre and at Secretary Seward's house, took place at 
about the same hour, (ten o'clock), thus showing a preconcerted plan to assassi- 
nate those gentlemen. Some evidence of the guilt of the party who attacked the 
President are in possession of the police. 

Vice-President Johnson is in the city, and his hotel quarters are guarded by 

troops. . , 

We learn that Gen. Grant received intelligence of this sad calamity soon after 
midnight, when at Walnut street wharf, on his way to Burlington, N. J. 



THE PRESIDENT'S LAST HOURS. 

^yashington, April 15-11 A.M.-At twenty minutes past 7 o'clock tlie Pred- 
d-nt breathed his last, closing his eyes as if falling to sleep, and his countenance 
assuming an expression of perfect serenity. There were no indications of pam 
and it was not known that he was dead until the gradually decreasing respiration 

ceased altogether. . 

The Rev D A. Gurley of the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, imme- 
diately on its being ascertained that life was extinct, knelt at the bedside, and 
offered an impressive prayer, which was responded to by all present. 

Dr. Gurley then proceeded to the front parlor, where Mrs. Lincoln, Captain 



28 THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN. 

Robert Lincoln, Mr. John Hay, the private secretary, and otners, were waitiBg, 
where he again offered proyer for the consolation of the family. 

The following minutes, taken by Dr. Abbott, show the condition of the Presi- 
dent throughout the night : 

11 P. M., pulse 44 ; 11.05 P. M., pulse 45, and growing weaker ; 11.10 P. M., pulse 
45 ; 11.15 P. M., pulse 42 ; 11.20 P. M., pulse 45, respiration 27 to 29 ; 11.25 P. M., 
pulse 42 ; 11.32 P. M., pulse 48 and full ; 11.40 P. M., pulse 45 ; 11.55 P. M., pulse 
45, respiration 22 ; 12.8 P. M., respiration 22 ; 12.15 P. M., respiration 21, ecchy- 
mosis both eyes ; 12.30 P. M., pulse 54 ; 12.32 P. M., pulse 60 ; 12.35 P. M., pulse 
66 ; 12.40 P. M., pulse 60, right eye much swollen and ecchymosis ; 12.45 P. M., 
•pulse TO, respiration 27 ; 12.55 P. M., pulse 80, struggling motion of arms ; 1 A. M., 
pulse 86, respiration 30 ; 1.30 A. M., pulse 95, appearing easier ; 1.45 A. M., pulse 86, 
very quiet ; respiration irregular ; Mrs. Lincoln present ; 2.10 A. M., Mrs. Lincoln 
retired with Robert Lincoln to an adjoining room ; 2.30 A. M., the President is very 
quiet; pulse 54; respiration 28; 2.52 A. M., pulse 48; respiration 30 ; 3 A.M., 
visited again by Mrs. Lincoln ; 3.25 A. M., respiration 24, and regular ; 3.35 A. M., 
prayer by the Rev. Dr. Gudey ; 4 A. M., respiration 26, and regular ; 4.15 A. M., 
pulse 60 ; respiration 25 ; 5.50 A. M., respiration 28, and regular sleeping ; 6 A. M., 
pnlse failing; respiration 28; 6.30 A.M., still failing and labored breathing;^ 7 
A. M., symptoms of immediate dissolution ; 7.22 A. M., death. 



THE A-SS^SSIISr^TION. 



ITS SECRET HISTORY. 



BOOTH'S ACTIONS PREVIOUS TO THE MURDER. 



Washington, April 17. — Developments are being made hourly, showing that 
the plot to assassinate the President and Cabinet was planned long ago, and that 
the conspirators were only waiting for a favorablex>pportunity to carry out their 
designs. 

That the KSights of the Golden Circle were the originators of the conspiracy 
there is no doubt, and it is also assured tliat the 4th of March was fixed for the 
commission of the deed. 

The assassination of the President throws light upon much which had seemed 
Btracge in the conduct of Booth during the past winter, and there is good reason 
to believe that in murdering Mr. Lincoln he was complyir.g with an obligation 
of the Order of which he was a member, and which obligation has fallen to him 
by lot. 

During the last two months he had seemed to be completely absorbed in some 
project, which none of his friends could fathom. In the midst of associates he 
would frequently remain silent ; or, if conversing, would talk in a pointless way, 
as if thinking of some great trouble. 

On the 4th of March his conduct was particularly noticed as being unusually 
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THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN. 29 

am>ng his acquaintances, from among whom he suddenly disappeired, and wag 
not seen again until a friend found him standing on the embankment at the north 
wing of the capitol, near which spot the President would necessarily pass. 

Booth was dressed in a slouch suit, with his pants tucked into the tops of hig 
boots, and an old felt hat drawn over his face. His friend hailed him two or 
three times, receiving no reply, and finally went up where Booth was standing, 
wlien the latter for the first time manifested his recognition of the gentleman, his 
manner conveying an impression that he did not wish to be recognized. 

As the President passed, he turned away with his friend as if disappointed by 
the absence of some one, and preserved throughout the day a moody silence. 
■ On Friday last he was about the National Hotel as usual, and strolled up and 
down the Avenue several times. During one of the strolls he stopped at the 
Kirkwood House, and sent into Vice-President Johnson a card, upon which was 
written : — 

" I do not wish to disturb you. Are you in ? 

"J. Wilkes Booth." 

A gentleman of Booth's acquaintance at this time met him in front of the 
Kirkwood House, and in the conversation which followed made some allusion to 
Booth's business, and in a jesting way asked, " What made him so gloomy ? had 
he lost another thousand in oil ?" 

Booth replied that he had lost considerably by the freshet; that he had been 
hard at work that day, and was about to leave Washington never to return. 

Just then a boy came out and said to Booth — " Yes, he is in his room." 

Upon which the gentleman walked on, supposing Booth would enter the hotel. 

About 7 o'clock, on Friday evening, he came down from his room at the Na- 
tional, and was spoken to by several concerning his paleness, which he said pro- 
ceeded from indisposition. Just before leaving he asked the clerk if he was not 
going to Ford's theatre, and added, " There loill he some very fine acting there to- 
night !" 

Mr. Sessford, ticket agent at the theatre, noticed Booth as he passed in, and 
Bliortly after the latter entered the restaurant next the theatre and in a hurried 
manner called for "Brandy I brand]/ 1 brandy I" rapping at the same time on 
the bar. 

Yesterday a great coat, stained with blood, and which had evidently been worn, 
as an overcoat, was found near Fort Bunker Hill, just back of Glenwood Ceme- 
tery. In the pocket was a false moustache, a pair of riding gloves, and a slip of 
paper upon which was written : — " Mary C Gardner, 419." 

This is supposed to have been worn by the man who attacked Secretary Sew»rd, 
although the weight of the evidence indif^ates that all the conspirators took the 
same route, that of the Navy Yard bridge. 

This morning Detective Kelly and a detail of patrolmen of the Second Ward, 
by order of Judge Olin, proceeded to the house of MoUie Turner, corner of 
Thirteenth street and Ohio avenue, and arrested all the inmates, from the mistress 
to the cook — eight in all — and took them to the police headquarters, to be held 
as witnesses. This is the house where Booth spent much of his time. Ella 
Turner, the woman who attempted suicide, being his kept mistress. 

Secretary Seward is doing well to-day, and the indications are highly favorably 
for the recovery of Frederick Seward, who has somewhat revived from bis coma 
lose state. The assassins are still at large. 



30 THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN". 

JOHN SURRATT. 

Prom the description given of his assailant by Mr. Seward, suspicion has been 
fastened upon a young man named John Surratt, whose residence ia about 
ten miles south of Washington, on the Bryantown road. His father was well- 
known and esteemed up to the time of his sudden death from apoplexy, within a 
year past. He owned a large country store, and held the ofiBce of Postmaster at 
the time of his demise. Young Surratt is reported to have been an active sym- 
pathizer in the Rebel cause, though by no means a man of sufficient daring to 
have planned the deeds with which his name has been unhappily associated. 

His connection with the transaction, if such he should be found to have had, 
even more than Booth's, is regarded as indicative of the existence of a secret aud 
powerful organization. From the lower part of Maryland ever since the be- 
ginning of the war, a regular system of intercourse has been kept up across the 
Potomac, and there have been evidences, from time to time, going to show that 
the Maryland adherents to the Confederate cause were exceedingly well posted as 
to the state of affairs in Richmond and beyond. 

There was, for a long while, a very efficiently worked underground railway 
system between the Rebel capital and the vicinity of Port Tobacco and Leonard- 
town, Maryland, and not only correspondence but light freight and passengers 
were transferred over the secret route. According to the letters found in Booth's 
trunk, at the National Hotel, his accomplice had once urged a postponement of 
the " mysterious business" until " Richmond could be heard from" — probably by 
the clandestine route alluded to — which, following on the statement of the Rich- 
mond journals, apropos of Beale's execution in New York harbor, together with 
the arguments previously advanced, demonstrates almost beyond the possibility 
of a doubt that Booth and Surratt, or whosoever the actOr's confederate may 
have been, were the agents of a bloodthirsty gang at the late Rebel capital. 

If the criminals were the men who rode over the Anacostia Bridge, on the 
night of the murder, they were probably going over familiar ground to some 
point on the Potomac, whence they expected to cross over into Virginia, and 
thence to Jeff. Davis' distant retreat, if practicable — or by hook or crook to join 
Moseby's yet unscattered force, this side of Richmond — all in accordance w ith 
previous arrangement. 



Captain McQowan'a Account of the Assassination. 

The following statement of Captain Theodore McGowan, A. A. G. to Gen 
Augur, may be implicitly relied on as a correct version of the assassination of 
Mr. Lincoln 

Washington, D. C, April 14. — On the night of Friday, April 14th, 1865, in com- 
pany with a friend, I went to Ford's Theatre. Arriving there just after the en 
trance of President Lincoln and the party accompanying him, my friend. Lieutenant 
Crawford and I, after viewing the presidential party from the opposite side of 
the dress circle, went to the right side, and took seats in tlie passage above the 
seats of the dress circle, and about five feet from the door of the box occupied by 
President Lincoln. During the performance the attendant of the President canie 
out and took the chair nearest the door. I sat, and had been sitting about four 
feet to his left and rear for some time. 

I remember that a man, whose face I do not distinctly recollect, passed me an« 
inquird of one sitting near who the President's messenger was, and learning, ex 



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hibited to him an envelope, aj parenlly oflicial, having a printed Leading &n4 
superscribed in a bold hand, I could not read the address and did not try. I 
thiuK now it was meant for Lieutenant-General Grant. That man went away. 

Some time after I was disturbed in my seat by the approach of a man who 
desired to pass up on the aisle in which I was sitting. Giving him room by bend- 
ing my chair forward he passed me, and stepped one step down upon the level 
below me. Standing there, h,e was almost in ray line of sight, and I saw liim 
while watching the play. He stood, as I remember, one step above the messenger, 
and remained perhaps one minute looking at the stage and orchestra below. 

Then he drew a number of visiting cards from his pocket, from which, with 
some attention, he drew or selected one. These things I saw distinctly. I saw 
him stoop, and, I think, descend to the level with the messenger, and by his right 
side. He showed the card to the messenger, and as my attention was then mor« 
closely fixed upon the play, I do not know whether the card was carried in by the 
mrrssenger, or his consent given to the entrance of the man who presented it. 
"f^ saw, a few moments after, the same man entering the door of the lobby, lead- 
ing to the box and the door closing behind him. This was seen, because I could 
not fail from my position to observe it ; the door side of the proscenium box and 
the stage were all within the direct and oblique lines of my sight How long I 
watched the play after entering I do not know. 

It was, perhaps, two or three minutes, possibly four. The house was perfectly 
still, the large audience listening to the dialogue between •' Florence Trenchard" 
and " May Meredith," when the sharp report of a pistol rang through the house. 
It was apparently fired behind the scenes, on the right of the stage. Looking to- 
wards it and behind the presidential box, while it started all, it was evidently ac- 
cepted by every one in the theatre as an introduction to some new passage, severa. 
of which had been interpolated in the early part of the pla3^ A moment after, a 
man leaped from the front of the box directly down, nine feet, and on the stage, 
and ran rapidly across it, bare-headed, holding an imsheathed dagger in his right 
liand, the blade of which flashed brightly in the gas-light as he came within ten 
feet of the opposite rear exit. I did not see his face as he leaped or ran, but I am 
convinced that he was the man I saw enter. As he leaped he cried distinctly the 
inotto of Virginia, "Sic semper tyrannis." 

The hearing of this and the sight of the dagger explained fully to me the nature 
of 'the deed he had committed. In an instant he had disappeared behind the side- 
scene. Consternation seemed for a moment to rivet every one to his seat, the 
next moment confusion reigned supreme. I saw the features of the man dis- 
tinctly before he entered the box, having survejj^ed him contemptuously before ht^ 
entered, supposing him to be an ill-bred fellow who was pressing a selfish matter 
upon the President in his hours of leisure. 

The assassin of the President is about five feet nine and a half inches high, 
biack hair, and I think eyes of the same color. He did not turn his face more 
than quarter front, as artists term it. His face was smooth, as I remember, witli 
the exception of a moustache of moderate size, but of this I am not positive. He 
■was dressed in a black coat, approximating to a dress frock, dark pants, and wore 
a stifi"-rimmed, flat-topped, round-crowned black hat, of felt, I think. Ke was a 
gentlemanly looking person, having no decided or obtruding mark. He seemed 
for a moment or two to survey the house with the deliberation of an hahit^H. 
of the theatre. 



W' THE ASSASSINATIOX OF PRESIDENT LINCOLW. 



FURTHER DETAILS OF THE ASSASSINATION. 



PLOT TO MURDER THE ENTIRE CABINET. 



Booth's Attempt to reach President Johnson. 

STATEMENTS OF MISS LAURA KEEXE, MAJOR RATHBUN, 
AND CAPTAIN MACGOWAN. 



SECRETARY SE^WARD'S CO:N^r>ITION. 



ESCAPE OP THE MURDERERS ! 



LATEST FROM SECEETARY SEWARD. 

He Receives tlie Intelligence of the Assassination of President Lincoln. 

Washington, April 17. — The deep interest felt in Secretary Seward, has 
tiironged his residence with visitors, among fllcm several members of the Cabi- 
net and Foreign Ministers. 

He was informed yesterday, for the first time, of the assassination of the 
President, and of the attempted assassination of his son, the Assistant Secretary, 
and, to some extent, of the condition in which he then lay. 

Though moved with the intensest sorrow and horror at a recital of the facts, 
his strength had so far returned as to enable him to bear up under the trying 
ordeal. 

The Assassins— $30,000 Reward. 

Washington, April 17. — Every effort that ingenuity, excited by fervor, can 
make, is being put forth by all the proper authorities to capture or trace the 
•ssassins of Mr. Lincoln and Mr. Seward. 

The Common Council of this city have offered a reward of $20,000 for the 
•rrest and conviction of the assassin. To this sum another of $10,000 is added 
by Colonel L. C. Baker, agent of the "War Department, making the whole reward 
Thirty Thousand Dollars. To this annoimcement are added the following de- 
scriptions of the individuals accused : 

Description of J. Wilkes Booth. 

The description of John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated the Presiient on the 
evening of April 1 4, 1865 :— Height, 5 feet 8 inches ; weight, 160 pounds; 3om- 
pactly built ; hair jet black, inclined to curl, medium length, parted behind ; eyes 
black and heavy ; dark eye-brows ; wears a large seal ring on the little finger ; 
when talking, inclines his head forward and looks down. 

Description of the person who attempted to assassinate the Hoto. "William H. . 
Seward, Secretary of State : — 1 

3eight, 6 feet one inch ; hair black, thick, full, and straight ; no beard, nor 
•ppearajice qlij^ard ; cheeks red in the jaws ; face moderately foil ; 22 mr 23 
yettf* of age 



THE ASSASSINATION" OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN. 41 

Color of eyes not known, large eyes but not prominent ; brows, not heavy but 
dark; face, not larf^e bnt rather round; complexion healthy ; nose straight and 
well-formed, medium sized. 

His mouth was small, lips thin ; upper lip protruded when he talked ; chin 
pointed and prominent ; head medium size ; neck short and of medium siae ; 
hands soft and small, fingers tapering ; shows no signs of hard labor. 

He had broad shoulders, taper waist, straight figure — a strong looking man ; 
manner not gentlemanly but vulgar. 

He was clad in a dress overcoat, with side-pockets and one on the breast, with 
lappels ; black pants of common stufl\ new heavy boots ; voice small and thin, in- 
clined to tenor. 

Number of Assassins Six. 

The number of persons engaged in the assassination, as developed by evidence 
thus far educed, is six, including Booth. 

Had each man engaged performed his part, the entire cabinet, with Yice-Presi- 
de'nt Johnson, would have been assassinated. 

Three Supposed Accomplices Arrested. 

The town is full of rumors of the capture of Booth and Surrat; but an houi 
ago neither had been taken. Several arrests have been made — among them, threa 
supposed accomplices of 'Booth in Prince George county, Maryland. 

Frederick W. Seward Conscious. 

Secretary Seward is doing well. Frederick is still in a dangerous condition, 
though there is hope of his life. For the first time he is conscious, replying to a 
question. 

Pistol and Knife Pound. 

In the room above the one occupied by Vice-President Johnson, in the Kirk- 
wood House, was found the pistol and knife which are of the same pattern as 
those in Secretary Seward's house. 



INVESTIGATION— A CONSPIRACY TO ASSASSINATE EVERY 
MEMBER OP THE CABINET, ETC. 

Washington, April 17. — The investigation in regard to the assassination is still 
progressing. A regular conspiracy to assassinate every member of the Cabinet, 
together with the Vice-President, has already been ascertained by developmegits 
which have just come to light. The names of the severally appointed assassins 
are, it is understood, known, and when all the facts are published the country will 
be astounded. We refrain from motives of public interest from mentioning ar / 
names. 

The murderer Booth has imdoubtedly made his escape into Rebeldom, as have 
also the other assassins. It may be sometime before he and the rest of them aie 
apprehended, but they surely will be in the end. 

Secretary Seward is regarded by his physicians as out of danger. Assistant 
Secietary F. W. Seward is also better to-day. 

John Wilkes Booth. ^ 

This young man — for he is only thirty-three years of age — is theljroungest son 
of the elder Booth, and is next m order of birth to his distinguished brother 



42 IHB ASASSiXAnoN' OP ^&Bn>fi;xT uxcour. 



SfivruL He vats botm on kw £axLa-'s imm mmr Btltiiaan, &Bd is thus a Muy- 
Ubt hia tw* kivlken, EdNim. mad Jwmmi 1timtx&. be iahented and eariy 
a prefiectioa far the stage, ead i> «rdl keovm tc tfaeetre^oos aai 
gemenStf «s » very fierleehwig yo— g mail, b«t as ait acter of 



"■' '' V^ I ■* ■T *'* r— ^*r*- "* "BacbardL^vUdtlkepiaycd dosdy aftri'^^s 
&ldMr*£ c— cqitiwB oHkat character, ami by his adBDCia was ooasidered sapoior 
ta ^e tUer BootiL He vas qeifce pt^Mdar in the W ectem and Sovthera dtiea» 
aai lu5 hst e iffci ffta^W Mat — , ^>e belieit^ m ChieageL • 

We bavc keari eTffdlr«t aclan aay — and acfeora ave mat, over apt to pnise each 
etiHs-— that he had mhented aoaae of the Host teilliaAt qpafities of his &tlMa''s 
^taiBS. Bot, of late. aoappoRBtlyiacBtahle branchial aflectioa has made afanoet 
every t a^ag e m eat. a faSne. Tie popen and critics havo apologised for his 
■"iMnrscBcsss* b«t it has loi^ be^ koovm Vy hs fiicMls thatho WDold be eompdled 
to s h i w i iw fte stage. 

L*st viMtar he pfMf H wm ongagcflaeat ia the St. Charies Theatre, in New 
OileaoB. «Bder the < Sa air ao lage of his "hoaneaeaa. ^od the engagnaent tengai- 
uted sooner iftaa vas expected on that ai towel He had aanj old frieads in 
that city, bat lUs «as hi? £rst ^pearanee tiiere srace &e iaeeptiaB of the reh^ 
Kflt. Oa his aniral he caiM i^oa the editor of one of the leaffing jovmals, and 
m tiae eenrse of conTereation vanaly exproKcd his spapathy vith aeccBsifln. 
Jnieed, fce ws vel kwnra as a seeesaanistk hat he was net one of the "noisy 
tuL* He has the sa—»%aiet, tabdntd , genflesaaaly ^nnner in hb inte r co nise 
vith o(^en, that aaiks his vhofe family. 

Hj<; last sjpeiifMicr ia pab&c ia tfiis city vas oa the evcniaig of Xoresaber 23, 
1CC4. at Wnler Garden, ahen Oe play of ^aluis Ceeamr aas grrcn for the benefit 
«f llM^Tihsili piaii ¥ Ml III Fi^ with a cast inrlndiag the three Booths 
bcofteiB— Edwin as *' Brains." JvaiaB as *'Gassiits.** and John Wilkes as •* Marc 
Aatony.* These was a very large and appmistiu: aadimce on that occasJoa. 

Hit is ndeed tme that he is tte a*sa»an of the Preadent. the aairersal indig. 
BStian ^^ch irill f ^ mi i m w t hoa to lasting iafaa y wiD not pie i eiit the expressicm 
of the prafanndHt spi^athy and soitow far those who are aDied to him by blood ; 
; of the act w3 not be leas emphatie than oar own; and 
of their onlspiil i a ftdeiity to the loyal cause, and 
of tke late President. 

Xr. Sdwin BooUi. 

or dMMghtfU person wonid let the foal act of J. 
the '■-i»»*«»» tiagedtaa Edwin Booth, his brother. Bat 
: wka do not know Mr. Edwin Booth's opiaion^, and 
ftK iahented ^mik family nsinfi, wewiUs^ 
thai be has been a fhorongh Union aun; he has on Afferent oecaaons, here and 
. far the hemdkt of the Sanitary riimmimion. and in many other way$. 
, ^plcyr■lpadl7 wi& the Cains canpe. We aic mfarsaed that political diC 
fe eace s had csssed a Berions qoaxrel bKweea Mr. Booth and his brother aomf 

Fredoick W. Sewazd. 

Mr. FTrffTick W£liam Seward, son of the Seeretaiy, and himself AssiFtMit 

SecTc'.AJT c'^^|£tt -v^ Tras wnnndBd by 'Oat amssrisi, was gradnated at Union 

Ctfes-r ~^Xk Toik^ in Aecfass of 1849, and afterwards stndied law 

^ h» ^ :_ . .- ^-^hnrii and was admitted to the bar ia 19S1. A few 





THE ASSASSIN' ATION" OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN. 45 

years later he purchased an interest in and became one of the editors of the 
Albany Ecening Journal. After the appointment of his father as Secretary of 
State, in 18GI, he was placed in the position of the Assistant Secretaryship, and 
nas discharged his duties with great abilitj^ and credit. Hi; was a young man of 
fine abilities, of most winning manners, and was endeared to a very large circle of 
private as well as political friends. 

Clarence H. Seward. 

It was reported this morning that Major Clarence H. Seward also was attacked 
by the assassin, but the statement is erroneous, as he was in New York on Satur- 
day. He is a nephew, and we believe an adopted son, of Secretary Seward. 

He was a graduate of Geneva, New York (now Hobart Free) College, was 
admitted to the bar, and has practised law in New York city. He volunteered in. 
the early part of the war, and from a Ueutenancy has lately been promoted to a 
majority in the volunteers. 

Vice-President Johnson to have been also Assassinated. 

It is very evident that the then Vice-President Johnson was included in the 
murderous programme of Friday night. On Thursday a man of genteel appear- 
ance took a room at Kirkwood's Hotel, where Mr. Johnson boards. For reasons 
best kno^vn to the proprietor or the detective, the name registered has not been 
disclosed. 

During the following day he was particular in his inquiries about the room of 
Mijj Johnson, his whereabouts and habits. Since Friday night the strange 
lodger has not been seen ; and on breaking open his room last night there were 
found concealed between the bed and mattress a bowie knife and navy revolver, 
and a bank book of J. WUkes Booth, showing a balance of over four hundred 
dollars in bank. 

During the afternoon of Friday, Booth called at Kirkwood's and sent to Mr. 
Johnson a card, as follows : 

" Don't wish to disturb you. Are yon at home ? 

" J. Wilkes Booth." 
When the assassination of Mr. Lincoln occurred. Senator Farwell, of Maine, 
was in the theatre, and hurried to Mr. Johnson's room and woke him up, te 
apprise him of the horrid tragedy. Upon entering tlie room he took the precau- 
tion to extinguish the light. It may be that this circumstance, or perhaps the 
early retiring of Mr. Johnson, saved him from assassination. 

Major Rathbun's Statement. 

The President's box at Ford's theatre is a double one, or what ordinarily 
constitutes two boxes, in the second tier, at the left of the stage. TNI: an occupied 
by the presidential party the separating partition is removed, and (he two arc 
thus thrown into one. 

The box is entered from a narrow, dark hall-way. which in turn is separated 
from the dress circle by a small door, llie examination of the premises discloses 
the fact that the assassin had fully and deliberately prepared and arranged them 
for his diabolical purpose previous to the assembling of the audience. 

A piece of board one inch tliick, six inches wide, and about tlu||^Xeet in length. 
served for a bar. ore end being placed in an indentation excava^Hpt the wall fbr 
the purpose, about ;our feet from the floor, and the other against the moulding of 



44 THE ASSASSINATION OF PBESIDKNT LINCOLN. 

the daor-panel, a few inches higher than the end in the wall, so that it woul(? be 
impossible to jar it out of place by knocking on the door on the outside. 

The demon having thus guarded against intrusion by any of the audience, next 
proceeded to prepare a means of observing the position of the parties inside the 
box. ■ With a gimlet or small bit he bored a hole in the door panel, which he 
afterwards reamed out with his knife so as to leave it little larger than a buckshot 
on the inside, while it was suflBciently large on the outside in the dark entry for 
Iiim to place his eye against with convenience and see the position occupied by 
the President and his friends. Both box doors were perforated in like manner. 
But there were spring locks on each of these doors, and it was barely possible 
that they might be fastened. 

To provide against such an emergency, the screws which fasten the bolt-hasps 
to the wood had been partially withdrawn, and left so that, while they would hold 
the hasps to the wood, they would afford little or no resistance to a tirm pressure 
upon the door from the outside. 

Miss Laura Keene's Statement. 

Prominent among those mentioned in connection with the incidents of the late 
tragical death of our worthy President, is the name of Miss Laura Keene, the 
actress. In order to place her right in the history, the following facts will 
EuflBce : 

Miss Keene was behind the scenes at the precise time of the shooting, waiting 
to come on the stage. She was near the place theatrically known as the tormentor. 
She was on the northern side of the theatre, while the President's box was on the 
southern side. 3 

Miss Keene's position was near the prompter's desk; but as that ofScial was 
absent calling some of the actors, she placed herself near the point where she 
could more readily enter upon her part. 

She was at the time expecting to see the ingress of Mr. Spear, whose part was 
•t hand, and prepared herself to break his fall as he entered in a drunken scene ; 
but instead of receiving Mr. Spear, Mr. Booth pushed his way suddenly through 
the side-scene, striking Miss Keene on the hand with his own in which he held 
tlie dagger. 

She for a second looked at him, and saw it was another person from the one she 
expected — and instantaneously she heard the cry that the President was shot. 
The cry was spontaneous among the audience, and many of them were making 
for the stage. 

She then knew something was occurring, as women were screaming, men halloo- 
ing, and cliildren crying, as if a fire-panic had taken place. Miss Keene went to 
the front of the stage, and, addressing the bewildered audience, said — '• For God'g 
sake have presence of mind and keep your places, and all will be well." 

Notwithstanding this appeal, the audience were boisterous ; and wliile all 
seemed willing to detect the perpetrator of the great crime, but one made a move 
to tliis end. Scarcely had the perpetrator of the crune jumped from the Presi- 
dent's box to the stage than he was followed by Mr. Stewart, one of the auditors. 

As Mr. Booth crossed the stage he met and struck at the carpenter with the 
dagger he held, and instantaneously made his exit to the rear of tlie theatre, 
where his horse was in readiness, and thence made his escape. 

Miss Keene^fter momentarily arresting the panic and consternation in the 
audience, ho^|^Hte cry of Miss Ilarri*, saying, '"Miss Keene, brirg .s(>me vater." 
Miss Keene, ^^onding to the call, made her way, which was rather circuitous, 



THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN. 46 

through the dress-circle to the President's box, and got there a few m oments 
alter the occurrence. 

There she saw Mrs. Lincoln, in the agony of a devoted wife, uttering the moat 
piteous cries. Miss Keene attempted to pacify her, at the same time offering the 
good offices in her power, but she was convinced from her observation that human 
help was in vain. Miss Keene remained with the President until he was taken 
from the theatre. 



POEMATIO"N OP A REGULAR CONSPIRACY. 

Washington, April 17. — The ''National Intelligencer" says : We can state on 
the highest authority that it has been ascertained that there was a regular con- 
spiracy to assassinate every member of the Cabinet, together with the Yice- 
President. 

Booth sends up his Card, to President Johnson. 

Booth, it is said, sent his card up to the Vice-President at the hotel, but Mr 
Johnson could not conveniently see him. 

A member of the Cabinet remarked on the day after the murder of Mr. Lincoln 
that the Rebels had lost their best friend ; that Mr. Lincoln at every Cabinet 
meeting invariably counselled forbearance, kindness, and mercy towards these 
misguided men. 

The ''Intelligencer" also contains the following : 

Harmony between Lincoln and Johnson. 

We understand, from authority which we deem unquestionable, that a few days 
ago, after an interview between the late Chief Magistrate and the present one, 
Mr. Lincoln expressed himself gratified with their concurrent views, and he placed 
implicit confidence in the Vice-President. 



THE OBSEQUIES. 
FUNERAL CEREMONIES IN WASHINGTON. 



Pilgrims from Every Quarter of the Union at the Capi'aL 
APPEAEANCE OF THE WHITE HOUSE. 



!?ns: scBSMTii zx^ ths xias? hoozm:. 



THE RELIGIOUS SERVICES OF THE DAY, 



PRAYER. OF BISHOP SIMPSON 



FUNERAL ORATION BY REV. DR. GURLEy. 



A NATION'S SORROW OVER HER MARTYRED CHIEF 

"Wasuixgton, April 19th, 18o5. 
To-day has been a bright, genial day for a sad, sad ceremony — the funeral oi 
our murdered President. The first beams of simlight came out with th'^ booming 
of morning cannon, and as the day grew old they grew radian', till they were 



46 THE ASSASSINATI02T OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN. 

almoet of cummer hotneas. As I write I see away out over the roof-tops rejoi^^iug 
nature luxuriant in odorous blossoms and myriad budding leayes on the verdure- 
elad Yirginia hills. There is not a cloud in the whole sky. It seems as glad as if no 
aation lay beneath mourning over its murdered dead, and paying him the last 
honors the living can render to the departed ; and yet so it is, for the spectacle 
presented here to-day was but a part of the general sadness all over the land. 'I'he 
whole city, ever since the death of the President, has been gloomy in crape, 
stretching from house to house, as if to keep up the communion of sympathy and 
tlic remembrance of our loss. Stores have been closed, business forgotten ; for 
the sole thought of the people has been the story of the dreadful murder and 
condign justice on the assassin. Washington has been sad ever since Good 
Friday, although a joyous time of the Christian year; but Wednesday, April 19th. 
will ever be her grandest and her saddest day — grand because of the great out- 
pouring, the extraordinary demonstrations of respect to the dead — sad because all 
this love, all this honor, was for one who was gone — one who could no longer 
thank them, or feel himself nerved to greater deeds of good to the people of the 
whole nation — one who had been slain even by those to whom he was a friend and 
benefactor. 

Mourners from Abroad. 

The announcement that the funeral would take place to-day drew together 
immense numbers of people from every part of the country. Delegations came 
from Illinois, New York, the New England States, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Phil- 
adelphia, indeed, every portion of the land, and numberless individuals came from 
numberless different places. The Union League of your city, a deputation from 
the Councils, and the members of the Perseverance Hose Co., were among the 
arrivals, while from New York came the Union League, the different public 
societies, and a number of such men as John Jacob Astor, Moses H. Grinnell. 
Simeon Draper, and many others. Every train that arrived was full of men and 
women clad in solemn black in respect to the memory of the nation's head. But 
Tuesday night and Wednesday morning brought the largest numbers, and to them 
were soon added thousands from Baltimore, Alexandria, and the differect towns 
and villages for miles around Washington. In the early morning, before the 
great slumbering population had begun to appear in the streets, the city wore u 
most funeral aspect, with its countless festoons of black flapping idly in the wind, 
and its mourning flags stretching out lazily before the intermittent April gusts, 
only to fall back suddenly to again hug the staffs that supported them. The 
great dome of the Capitol stood out against the morning sky encircled with 
badges of woe, and the White House was no longer white, but glooiay with the 
trappings of death. 

The Streets Pilling. 

The time for the commencement of the funeral services at the White House 
was fixed at 12 o'clock, but before that time thousands began to pass towards the 
Executive Mansion, clustering on Fifteenth street and Pennsylvania avenue, and 
hning with a black, surging mass, the pavement and railing guarding the grounds 
in front of the mansion. Soon the troops began to arrive and take their places in 
the line of escort. Soon the whole avenue from Thirteenth down to Fifteenth 
street was crowded with thousands who stood looking mournfully on the draped 
mansion and all the sad surroundings, reminding them of their great loss and of 
the awful crime which had been committed against them as a people. To this 
motley ensemble of gleaming bayonets, uniforms of blue, and the monotonous 
black of the popular dress, were soon added the innumerable carriages which were 



^ THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN. 47 

to compose part of the funeral procession. The sun beat hotly down, and the 
eddying gusts shook up great clouds of dust, and sent them, with unswerving 
impartiality, over the whole throng ; yet there was no dimunition of the crowd, 
hut rather a constant increase of its numbers. The windows and porticoes of the 
Treasury and State Department were also fdled with ladies, who looked down 
upon the scene before them with evident interest. Admittance to the White 
House conld only be gained through the Treasury, and the doors were besieged 
(Vom early morning by anxious ones, who were desirous of entering the house to 
witness and assist in the obsequies. There were people there who had travelled 
hundreds of miles to gain this request, and there were people who had not 
travelled at all ; but all their pleadings were in vain. The most plausible stories, 
the most ingenious subterfuges, were resorted to, but all were useless. The im- 
placable officials turned them off without mercy, compelling them to wander 
disconsolate, or be crushed in the swaying throng. 

The Gathering in the Treasury. 
Those who were fortunate enough to be gifted with the " open sesame" to the 
White House assembled in the west wing of the Treasury Department. A few 
minutes before eleven the doors were opened, and admittance gained to the 
Executive ^lansion and the " East Room" over a long temporary wooden bridge, 
which spanned the galleries and uneven ground lying between the marble mone- 
tary palace and the boundaries of the presidential grounds. It required a long 
time for the many guests to pass, but the spacious rooms held all that were 
admitted. The arrangements, \mder the direction of Assistant Secretary of the 
Treasury Harrington, were of the completest kind, and every thing moved 
smoothly, without the slightest delay or confusion. 

Appearance of the White House. 

Passing over the long, wooden bridge bearded sentries stopped the guest at the 
gate until his ticket, entitling him to admittance, was shown. Tnen officers mar- 
shalled him through the entrance rooms to the East Room, where the body of the 
President lay in state. The exterior of the mansion was elaborately and taste- 
fully draped. The pediments of white marble were festooned generously with 
crape, which wound in regular folds down the great, smooth pillars to the ground. 
The reception room was untouched. It was as always. But the light vas dimmed 
10 a funeral gloom, which made objects indistinct and shadow^', and prepared the 
mind of the visitor for the sad scene into which a few steps would usher him. 
When we entered it A distinguished company was assembled : committees in spot- 
less black, Avith great white silk sashes passed across their breasts over their right 
shoulders ; generals of both grades, admirals, commodores, congressmen, and citi- 
zens from every part, of position and influence. Members of the press were grouped 
together in silence over the long area. A sad group of soldiers, cavalry and in- 
fantry, without arms or accoutrements were massed on the right of the portico, 
their officers at their head, while scattered over the ground were other groups — all 
Piid, all still, all impressed with the meaning of the occasion that had brought 
them together. 

The East Room. 

'Hie scene in this room burst on one with a sudden pathos of woe, for every 
thing that could suggest it was present. The heavy curtains were drawn down 
over the windows, shutting out the simlight, and long reaches of heavy crape 
mingled its sombreness with the gay gold of the brocade. The mirrors, eight ux 



48 THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN. 

number, which in the times when the honored inmates of the presidential mansion 
were happy, reflected back in myriad tints bright scenes, scenes of joy, were now 
hidden in crape and barege. The ruddy yellow of the frames was liidden in black, 
and the brilliant polish of the pier glass lost its brilliance beneath the white dis- 
gmse of fairy gauze. But it was not the gloom that saddened, nor the hangings 
that covered every thing that looked of mortality, nor the abandonment of desola- 
tion in the city that smote the heart. There was something still more solemn, that 
spoke far more clearly of death, in the funeral catafalque and the silvered coffin 
that held all that was earthly of the great, the good, the true. It needed none of 
these raven plumes to tell of death, for there it was in all its ghastliness, under the 
gathering folds of the sumptuous canopy, covering the remains of Abraham Lin 
coin. It struck all with force. Not one among all who entered the East Eoom, 
no matter what he was — a total unbeliever or a fervent Christian — but felt that 
the King of Terrors was a mighty king, wlio spared no one in his anger, and 
sought his victims alike from the highest and the lowest. 

The Scene in the East Room. 

All that art can do, all that a desire for luxury can do, has been done \o render 
the East Room beautiful. Even in its garb of woe the same beauty remained 
more lovely and even heightened by the grief that struggled with idle show, ren- 
dered the original beauty the more winsome. Biit on this occasion its natural 
beauty was heightened by an intellectual beauty. All the talent, the genius, the 
celebrity of our land were gathered within its comparatively narrow limits, and to 
their prestige were added all the mind and force represented m Washington by 
the Diplomatic Corps. The guests had been ranged in a great semi-circle around 
the catafalque. On the chord of the semi-circle was the corps of correspondents 
of the press of the country — gentlemen whose mission it is to criticise, instruct, 
and elevate the masses, who read their Avords with respect and profit. Between 
the great arc of distinguished men and the chord of chroniclers who make history 
was the catafalque, partially obscuring from the view of your correspondent the 
distinguished gentlemen who stood in the centre of the room, for the catafalque 
stood in aljout the centre. 

The guests entered the room in the order of their arrival, without regard to 
rank. There were ambassadors, now congressmen, then members of the council 
of some grieving loyal city, Mliich had already sacrificed hundreds or thousands 
of its loyal sons. A grave, gold-laced scion of the European aristocracy, and its 
many interests, was the arrival now, and after him came an humble, truly demo- 
cratic representative of the municipality of Baltimore, modest in deportment, 
plain in dress, in manners, and in speech. Then would come a portly congress- 
man, closely succeeded by some general with two stars, who had made a name 
amid the dangers of the battle field alike for his courage as a man and his 
devotion as a patriot. But there were few who were not distinguished in law, 
politics, war, or finance. To the common eye they were common men, with 
nothing to recommend them beyond their dress, but there was a purpose of 
countenance, an evidence of will and of power, that told the most superficial that 
these men presided over the destinies of nations and shaped the course of the 
civilized Avorld. It was an interesting sight for the members of the press to 
study the great semi-circle that stretched around them. One of the most 
striking objects was a fine-looking man, who stood far above the ground, his out- 
lines limned against a bareged mirror. He was wholly unconscious of the notice 
he attracted, but his dignity and manly bearing extorted admiration from every 



THE ASSASSIXATION OF PKESIDEXT LINCOLN. A.9 

<me — critic and unsophisticated. He stood there a statue — a living statue — with 
health on his cheeks and a flowing beard that betokened his manhood, anl many 
a man, enthusiastic on certain subjects even in the presence of death, suggested 
his portrait as a representative of the strength of our thrice blood-bought Union. 
But there were other interesting sights. In the throng before us was included 
the entire political intellect of the nation. The men who led us through the 
Btorms of war ; the men who preside as monarchs in finance and furnished us the 
Binews whose strength hurled down the boasting rebel power ; the men who, in 
the battle-field, unblenched by cannon roar or whistling musket-shot, directed the 
efforts of our gallant armies to the glorious ends of success ; our great men ; the 
men who in every trial and every defeat were proof against despair and equal to 
every emergency, were there, modest and unobtruding, but none the less meri- 
t-orious to the curious eyes that sought for them. Circled around the catafalque, 
rich in all that ingenuity could suggest, were these men, great in the field, great 
In the forum, great in the council hall. On the right of the corps of the press, 
in this distinguished gathering, were men most of them, perhaps, unkno'ATi to 
fame, but useful in their spheres, and all contributing to the strength and glory 
of the nation. The catafalque is easily described. Measurements are not neces- 
sary, for they bring no idea of extent to the reading mind. It was a canopy of 
black arching over the remains of the murdered dead. He rested in quiet peace 
in a dais — a parallelogram which formed the base upon which rested the cata- 
falque. A dais was reared for the better convenience of the sorrowing, who 
mounted it to take a last look at the dead, the martyred dead. To our right, as 
we have before intimated, were many of the most valuable men of our land — not 
distinguished in position, perhaps, but in their spheres invaluable. 

We noticed among the myriad of faces that of Mayor Wallach, of Washington, 
and many of his Couucilmen ; the Mayor and Council of Alexandria, the city in 
which Ellsworth died ; Messrs. O'Neill and Myers, Eepresentatives from your 
J?tate ; Gen. Burnside, Gen. Hoffman, and Gen. Dyer. Their gaze was fixed on 
Uie black velvet coffin, richly besilvered by the nation, who bemoaned the loss 
of its honored occupant. Gen. Burnside was in citizen's dress, but his face was 
just the same as when he led our armies on the tented field, though tinged with 
the sadness of the hour. In fhe centre of the semicircle were the distinguished 
gentlemen of the Supreme Court and the Diplomatic Corps. There was a marked 
distinction, in dress at least, between these two great bodies. Belaced with gold, 
the ambassadors looked around on the gathering of distinguished men, with an 
air of calm indiflference, although they could not look upon the dead without a 
pang of regret, and a respect, and a memoir of decided honor, of honor indeed 
while he was Uving. There was a great contrast between the Diplomatic Corps 
and our highest judicial body. One came out in all the tinsel and glory of 
royalty, which depends on ostentation for its safety, while our greatest court 
could not be distinguished fro:n the mass of American citizens. 

On the left of the Press Corps was perhaps the most noticeable gathering of all, 
for there stood the men who in the hour of our trial had delivered us out of defeat 
and crowned our sacrifices with victory. There was Admiral Porter — great, bluff 
old tar — the conqueror of Fort Fisher, and the conqueror, indeed, of the whole 
South Atlantic coast ; there was Farragut, the invincible — he who opened the 
Mississippi to the Union armies ; there was Shubrick ; and last, though not least, 
there was Grant, the conqueror of the hitherto invmcible army of Tirginia — the 
man who by sheer genius and skill had driven the rebel cohorts from their chosen 



50 THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN. 

•tronghold, and compelled them to siirronder, in a friend's country, at the crp^iM 
of the Confederacy for which they fought and died. 

On the right there was nothing particularly uoticeable, even though they were 
participants in the obsequies of the first-martyred President in our Republic* 
They were valuable men — all staimch men, but they played no great part in the 
drama of the nation's preservation. Those in the centre were, in their places, 
instrumental in the salvation of the Union, but their parts were secondary, for 
their weapons drew no blood. But on the extreme left, on the north side of the 
catafalque, were congregated the men who, on land and sea, had upheld the honor 
of the flag. Grant was there — the impersonation of modesty — quiet and imob- 
trusive among those who had contributed far less to the nation's success. Far- 
ragut, Shubrick, and other admirals were clustered around him, engaged some- 
times in lively conversation — lively, we judge, from the smiles we saw at different 
times when something particularly pertinent had been uttered. Grant stood there 
a monarch among all — a plain, unpretending man, with close-shorn whiskers and 
a square, massive face — his three stars, denoting that he was the leading officer of 
the United States — the chief among its chief — were concealed, on one shoulder 
at least, by the great white silk sash which indicated his position as chief pall- 
bearer. Sometimes he turned to the many major-generals grouped aroimd him, 
and made some remark smilingly ; but beyond the respect with which his every 
word was received, there was no evidence that he was the general-in-chief, after 
the President, of all the armies of the United States. . There was no gorgeoui- 
ness about him. The same style of uninterrupted rows of buttons, in cluster? 
of three, marked his uniform, and the only means of recognition for those who 
had never seen him was the unmistakable face which had been reproduced in a 
thousand photographs. 

The Funeral Ceremonies. 

These ceremonies were conducted by Rev. Dr. Gurley, the pastor of the Pres- 
byterian church, of which the dead President was a constant attendant. After 
the usual funeral services a prayer was offered by Right Rev. Bishop Simpson, re- 
plete with unction and religious patriotism, succeeded by a fervent prayer by Rev. 
Mr. Gray, of Washington. These services were read, these prayers delivered over 
a coffin strewed with cameUas and evergreens, the offerings of the true-hearted 
and the sympathizing. The sermon of Dr. Gurley was a fine production, and all 
its prominent features are included in the condensed report, to be foimd in another 

page. 

The Funeral Procession. 

The sons of the President were present during the religious services, in com- 
pany with many friends, including the wives and daughters of the prominent 
members of the government. Thaddeus, the younger one, seemed deeply 
affected, and bowed his head upon his hand during the whole of the ceremonies. 
His son Robert was in his full uniform of captain, and partook in the sorrow of hia 
yoJ^lger brother. Mrs. Lincoln was not present. 

When the last prayer had been offered by Dr. Gurley, the coffin was removed 
by twelve sergeants of the invalid corps, and placed in a hearse, the like of which 
in grandeur has never been witnessed in Washington. So great was the size of 
the hearse that the coffin, though measuring six feet six inches in the clear 
seemed as a child's when compared to the great capacity of the receptacle in 
which it was carried. When the coffin had been transferred, the procession 
marched on its way. 

In the subjoined rep' rt we give some idea of its strength and magnificence. 



THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN. 81 

Nerer before has "Washington, or any other city, witnessed such a pageant, and in 
all human probability it never will again. 

The Spectacle of the Funeral. 

Eyes have not often witnessed such a sight as we witnessed from the lofty por- 
ticoes of the Treasury. We do not need to enter into its particulars, since a sub- 
joined report covers many of its particulars. But the report can never express 
the newness, the beauty, even in the midst of grief, of this funeral. In the 
advance were the Veteran Reserves, men who had in battle proven their prowness. 
Following them were the marines, their celebrated band, the cavalry and the 
artillery. Pennsylvania avenue was not thronged, but packed with people. The 
roofs of the houses vied with the streets in the number of their occupants. 
The stream of men in blue and red, mounted and dismounted, were succeeded by 
the citizens in long files, extending the whole w'dth of Pennsylvania avenue. It 
was a glorioiis sight, and at least thirty thousand men assisted in the grand proof 
that the Union is not dead in the hearts of the people. Never was " raore 
splendid sight witnessed in AVashington, never, perhaps, may it be again. The 
remains were at last deposited in the Rotunda of the Capitol, where they will re- 
main to-night to receive the veneration of the people. They will leave here at 8 
A. M. to-morrow, passing through Baltimore and Harrisburg to you city, arriving 
there perhaps at 8 A. M. on Saturday, where it is believed they vrill remain until 
4 A. it. Monday, when they will pass through New York, Albany, and other 
cities, to the last resting-place in Springfield, Illinois. 



THE PROCESSION. 

At precisely two o'clock the line of march was taken up at tlie President's 
house in the following order : 

10th Regiment Invalid Corps, with reversed arms, regimental flags draped iu 

mourning. 

Drum Corps of fifteen drums and ten fifes. 

9th Regiment Invalid Corps, Colonel George W. Gile. 

Marine Band. 

Marine Corps, commanded by Major Graham. 

1st U. S. Battery of Artillery. 

84th U. S. Battery of Artillery. 

(Numbering together eight pieces, 12 pounders, with caissons, etc., commanded 

by Brigadier-General Hall.) 

16th New York Cavalry, Colonel N. B. Sweltzer. 

8th Illinois Cavalry, Colonel Clendennin. 

13th New York Moimted Band. 

General Ketchem and staff. 

General Slongh, ^lilitary Governor of Alexandria, and staflT. 

Dismoimted ofiRcers of Marine Corps, numbering about two hundred. 

Officers of Navy and Army on foot, numbering six hundred. 

Mounted officers of Army and Navy, numbering about one hundred. 

Signal Corps officers. Field officers. 

Marshal Lamon. 

.Reverend Clergy and Physicians in carriages, three abreast, and fifteen in number. 

The drivers of these carriages had their hats trimmed with white cambric, and 



52 THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN. 

those ■who rode horseback in this part of the line wore white satin sasbes acfOM 
their bodies, the ends hanging gracefully down below their waists. 

Hearse. 

Bearing the mortal remains of the late Abraham Lincoln, drawn by six gray 

horses, each led by a groom. 

The grooms were dressed in full black suits and white satin sashes, and had 
white cambric*, muslin tied around their dress hats, with long flowing ends. The 
ornamentation of the horses was quite simple, and consisted of black cloth rosettes, 
one of which was placed at the head of the horse, and another about the middle 
of the body, and were attached to the harness. The hearse itself was constructed 
with much skill and taste. In its simplicity it agreed with the character of the 
great man whose remains it bore, and in elegance it became the station of the 
Chief Magistrate of this Repv.blic. It was ten feet in length, and about four and 
a half feet in width. The height of the platform on which the coffin rested was 
seven feet from the ground. This platform was supported by a pedestal-like 
parallelogram fourteen feet long and seven feet wide. A domed canopy sur- 
moimted the whole. At the top of the canopy was a gilt eagle covered with 
crape. The whole hearse was covered with black cloth relieved by layers of silk 
velvet. The seat was covered with hammer cloth, and on each end was a 
splendid black lamp. It was, altogether, fifteen feet high, and the coffin was so 
placed as to afford a full view to all spectators. The hearse was guarded on each 
side by a detachment of the 1st Virginia Artillery on foot. 

After the hearse came the President's horse, with his saddle, bridle boots, and 
atirrups. The horse was led by a groom. 

Then followed the pall-bearers in carriages : 

On the part of the Senate. 
Ilr. Foster, of Connecticut ; Mr. Morgan, of New York ; Mr. Johnson, of Mary- 
land ; Mr. Yates, of Illinois ; Mr. Wade, of Ohio ; 
Mr. Conness, of California. 

On the part of the House. 

Ifr. Dawes, of Massachusetts ; Mr. CofiFroth, of Pennsylvania ; Mr. Smith, of 

Kentucky ; Mr. Colfax, of Indiana ; Mr. Washburne, of Illinois. 

Army. 

Lieutenant-General U. S. Grant. 

Major-General H. W. Halleck. 

Brevet Brigadier-General W. A. Nichols. 

Navy. 

Vice-Admiral D. G. Farragut. 

Eear-Admiral W. B. Shubrick. 

Colonel Jacob Zeller, of the Marine Corps. 

Civilians. 

0. H. Browning, George Ashmun, Thomas Corwin, Simon Cameron. 

The family, represented by Robert Lincoln and Thaddeus Lincoln, in a carriage. 

The delegations of the States of Illinois and Kentucky, as mourners, in carriages. 

President Andrew Johnson. 

The Cabinet Ministers. 

The Diplomatic Corps 

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Chief Justice Chase and Associate Justices of the Supreme Court. 

The Senate of the United States, preceded by its officer!. 

The House of Bepresenta tires of the United States, preceded by iti oi&ocrL 

GoTemors of the several Stat-es and Territories. 

Legislatures of the several States and Territories. 

The Federal Judiciary and the Judiciary of the several States and Territoriet. 

Hie Assistant Secretaries of State, Treasury, Waj-, Xavy, and Interior, and tb« 

Assistant Postmaster-Generals, and the Assistant Attorney-GreneraL 

Officers of the Smithsonian Institute. 

(An of the above, after the hearse, were in carriages.) 

Knights Templar and band. 

(..ly Councils of Philadelphia, dressed in foil black, with black crape cm. h*ta, 

with the words " City Councils of Philadelphia" in gilt letters thereupon. 

The Members mid Officers of the Sanitary and Christian Commissions. 

Satterlee Hospital Band. 

Ferieverance Hose Company of Philadelphia, dressed in black, with the nanje 9t^ 

the company on crape, in gilt letters, on high hats, 

"VTashington City Councils. 

4th U. S. Battery Band. 

Ohio Delegatitjn. 

Xew Jersey IVelegation. 

California Delegation. 

Treasury Band. 

Th* heads of bureaus and the clerks in the respective offices of the Tresjof^ 

Department. 

Heads of bureaus and clerks in the respective offices of the War Departm^t. 

Heads of bureaus and clerks in tlie respective offices of the Navy Deparca«*t. 

Heads of bureaus and clerks in the respective offices of the Interior Departznut. 

Heads of bureaus and clerks in the respective offices of the Post Ofiea 

Department. 

Offices and clerks in the Attorney-General's Office. 

Officer in tlie Department of Agriculture. 

Joint Committee of the Alderman and Common Council of Xew York. 

The badge worn by tlie Committee was handsomely draped, the device b«af 

the coat of arms of the city, having engraved thereon the respective itUMt «f 

tlie members of tlie body. The badge was about two inches in circomfcnafM. 

Mid appropriate in its appearance. 

Surgeons mounted. 

Surgeon- General Barnes and Staff. 

Drum Corps. 

Battalion from Quartermaster-General's office, known as the 21st Infa&try. 

Members of Councils of the City of Baltimore. 

Officers of Custom House. 

Quartermaster's Band. 

Officers and Soldiers of the War of 1S12. 

Brass Band. 

Capitol Circle No. I. Fenian Brotherhood, numbering about five hundred. 

Brass Band. 

1-lth United States Infantry. 

1st Regiment Meigs Home Guard. 

2d Regiment Meigs Home Guard, Col. TaaMU. 



§Z THE ASSASSrS'ATtOX OP PRESIDKXT LTSCOLS. 

Employees of Quartermaiter-General's Office. 
Employees and operatives of the "War Department. 
Employees and operatives of the Navy Department. 
8th Illinois Cavalry Band. 
United States Military Railroad employees, numbering about one thousand. 
Union League of Georgetown. 
-»^ National Republican Union Association. 
Del^&tion from Alexandria Mdth covered wagon draped, and the motto, "Alex- 
andria mourns the National Loss. 
Alexandria Fire Department, numbering about two hundred, uniform red shirta, 

black pants, and felt hats. 

Pcitomac Hose of Georgetown, D. C, ntmibering about one hundred ; same vai' 

form as Alexandria Firemen. 

Mount Vernon Association ; Soldiers from Ho^itals. 

Brass Band. 

Mechanics and "Workmen from Mount Claire. 

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Employees ; Arsenal Employee*. 

Brass Band. 

Massachusetts Delegation, in which General Butler walked. 

Delegation from "Philadelphia Union League. 

Delegation from New York Union League. 

Eaet Baltimore Union League. 

Sigel Union League of Baltimore. 

Medical College of Georgetown. 

OfBcers and Students of Gonzaga College. 

Merritt Band. 

Hebrew Congregation. 

Brass Band. 

Baltimore City Comet Band. 

Turners' Society. 

Ancient Order of Good Fellows ; Germania Lodge of Odd Fellowe. 

Carver Hospital Band. 

6ood Samaritan Lodge, No. 1, Sons of Temperance ; Equal Division. No. S^ 

S. of T. ; Aurora Division No. 9, S. of T. ; Lincoln Division. S. of T. ; 

Central Division, No. 12, S. of T. 

Brass Band. 

Empire Division. No. 18. 

Hope Division. 

Italian Societies. 

BrotAerhood of the Union ; Bookbinder's Society ; Typographical Society 

Jewish Congregation. 

Emery Hospital Band. 

^ CJolored Societies. 

Benevolent Association of Colored People. 

Harmony Lodge, No. 18, G. U. 0. of 0. F. 

Colored Men. 

T^ing Hezekiah's Pasture, No. 3. 

Union Grand Lodge. 

The Funeral March, 
.l^.fn&d afid beastifel funeral march, performed for the first tine yMterdar. 



THE ASSASSINATiOX OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN. 83 

by the Uiuted States Marine Band, was <:omposed and dedicated to tlie occasion 
by Brevet Major-Gcneral J. G. Barnard. 

The procession passed from the President's house down Fourteenth street to 
Pennsylvania avenue, and along the avenue to the Capitol buildincrs, where the 
remains of President Lincoln were laid in state in the rotunda of the CapitoL 

All the soldiers in the procession marched about twenty-five abreast. Many 
of the civic societies marched fifty abreast, stretching entirely across Pennsylvania 
avenue. 

Washington, April 19. — Early to-day the streets were crowded with persons, 
lliousands of them from distant cities and other localities. Nearly the entire 

1)opulation was abroad. By ten o'clock every prominent point on the line of prc- 
ession was occupied by those who desired to olitain the best view of the solemn 
and truly impressive pageant. In tlie immediate neighborhood of the Executive 
Mansion a dense and unprecedently large crowd had assembled. During the fore- 
iiuon various bodies had met at the Treasury Department, separate rooms having 
been assigned them, and to these Assistant Secretary- Harrington, who had charge 
of the arrangements, delivered tickets of admission to the Executive 3Iansion. 
They included the Assistant Secretary, the Assistant Postmaster-General, and 
the Assistant Attorney-General, Senators, and Representatives in Congress 
(xovenors of the several States, the Judiciary, and others of prominence. None 
could enter the mansion without tickets, room having been pro\i<ied for six hun- 
dred persons only, upon a raised platform, with steps on the east and north and 
south sides of the room. The corpse lay about the centre, the space being re. 
served all around the catafalque with chairs for the occupation of the immediate 
family of the deceased. It was here in the East Room that the bodies of Presi- 
dents Harrison and Taylor lay in state, but the arrangements nu those occasions 
were far inferior to the present, for now artists had been emploj'ed, contributing 
of their skill and taste to produce the best possible efiects. At eleven o'clock 
the guests began to arrive, a body of about sixty clergyman, from all parts of 
the country, being the first to enter. There was an interval of a few moments 
between the arrivals, and thus no confusion whatever was occasioned. The proper 
ofi&cers were in attendance to assign the guests to their appropriate places in the 
room. Heads of Government bureaus, Govenors of States, members of municipal 
governments, prominent officers of the army and navy, the Diplomatic Corps in 
full costume, members of the Christian Commission, the Union League Cominittce 
of Philadelphia and New York, merchants of the principal cities, members of both 
Houses of Congress, and others. 

There were honored representatives, holding the highest official stations, fro.»n 
all parts of our own country and from foreign lands, and under the circumstane« 
of the assasination of a President, whose body lay before them, the scene was 
solemnly grand and impressive. At noon the President of the United States 
entered, in company with his Cabinet, all of them, excepting Secretary Seward. 
President Johnson approached the catafalque, and took a last but brief look at 
ais illustrious predecessor, and then retired to a position immediately on the e&su 
»ud in full view of the coffined remains in his front. 

At ten minutes past twelve, amid profound silence, Rev. Dr. Gurley, approach- 
ing the head of the catafalque, aimounced the order of the religious services, whea 
Rev. Dr. Hall, Episcopalian, from the same point, read a portion of the Scriptures 
according to the form of that Church. 

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66 THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESinENT LINCOLN. 

Such was his sublime and holy faith, and it was an anchor to his soul both snr© 
and steadfast. It made him firm and stroni,', it emboldened him in the pathway 
of duty, however rugged and perilous it might be. It made him valiant for the 
right, for the cause of (iod and humanity, and it held him in steady, patient, and 
imswerving adherence to a policy of administration which he thought, and which 
we all now think, both God and humanity required him to adopt. We admired 
and loved him on many accounts, for strong and various reasons. We admired 
his cnildlike simplicity, his freedom from guile and deceit, his staunch and sterling 
iiif^egrity, his kind and forgiving temper, his industry and patience, his persistent 
self-sacrificing devotion to all the duties of his eminent position. From the least 
to the greatest, his readiness to hear and consider the cause of the poor and 
humble, the suffering, the oppr<"ised; his chanty towards those who questioned 
the correctness of his opinions and the wisdom of his pelicy ; his wonderful skill 
in reconciling differences among the friends of the Union, leading them away from 
abstractions, and inducing 'hem to work together and harmoniously for the com- 
mon weal ; his true and enlarged philanthropy, that knew no difference of color 
or race, but regarded all men a.'^ brethren, and endowed alike by their Creator 
with certain inalienable riglits, amongst which are ''life, liberty, and the pursuit 
of happiness ;" his inflexibility of purpose that what freedom had gained in oar 
terrible civil strife should never be lost, and that the end of the war should be the 
end of slavery, and, as a consequence, of rebellion ; his readiness to spend and be 
spent for the attainment of sucli a triumph, the blessed fruits of which should be 
as wide-spreading as the earth, and as enduring as the sun — all these things com- 
manded and fixed our admiration, and the admiration of the world, and stamped 
upon his character and life the unmistakable impress of greatness. But more 
Bublime than any or all of these, more holy and influential, more beautiful and 
strong and sustaining, was his abiding confidence in God, and in the final triumph 
cf truth and righteousness through him and for his sake. This was his noblest 
Tiitue, his grandest principle — the secret alike of his strength, his patience, and 
his success ; and this, it seems to me, after being near him steadily and with'liim 
often for more than four years, is the principle by which, more than by any other, 
"he, being dead, yet speaketh." Yet, by his steady, enduring confidence in God, 
and in the complete ultimate success of the cause of God, whicli is the cause of 
humanity, more than in any other way, does he now speak to us and to the nation 
he loved and served so well. By this he speaks to his successor in office, and 
charges him to have faith in God. By this he speaks to the members of his 
Cabinet, the men with whom he counselled so often and was associated with so 
bug, and he charges them to have faith in God. By this he speaks to all who 
occupy positions of influence and authority in these sad and troublous times, and 
charges all to have faith in God. By this he speaks to this great people as they 
ait in sackcloth to-day, and weep for him with a bitter wailing and refuse to be 
comforted ; and he charges them to have faith in God ; and by this he will speak 
through the ages and to all rulers and peoples in every land, and his message to 
them will be, "Cling to Liberty and Right; battle for them, bleed for them, die 
for them, if need be, and have confidence in God." Oh! that the voice of this 
testimony may sink down into our hearts to-day, and every day, and into the 
lieart of the nation, and exert its appropriate influence upon our feeliri'^s, our 
faith, our patience, and our devotion to the cause, now dearer to us than ever 
before, because consecrated by the blood of its most conspicuous defender, its 
wisest and most fondly trusted friend. He is dead, but the God in whom he 
trusted lives, and he can guide and strengthen his successor as he guided aiid 
strengthened him. He is dead, but the memory of his virtues, of his voice and 
patriotic counsels and labors, of his calm and steady faith in God, lives, is precious, 
and will be a power for good in the country quite down to the end of time. He 
"s dead, but the cause he so ardently loved, so ably, patiently, and faithfully repre- 
sented and defended — not for himself only, not for ue only, but for all peo[)le in 
all their generations, till time shall be no more, 1'hat cause survives his fall. aia{ 
must survive it. The light of its brightening prospects flashes cheeringly to-day 
tthwart the gloom occasioned by his death, and the language of God's luiilccJ 
providences is telling us that though the friends of liberty die, liberty itself it 
immortal. There is no assassin strong enough and no weapon deadly enough tj 
qpcnch its inextinguishable life or arrest its onward march to the con(|uest and 
empire of the world. This is our confidence and this is our consolation, as W9 



THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN. 67 

weep ajiJ mourn to-day. Though our beloved President is alain, our beloved 
rountry is saved, and so we sing of mercy as well as of judgment. Tears of grati- 
tude mingle with those of sorrow, while there is also the dawning of a brighter, 
happier day upon our stricken and weary land. God be praised that our lallea. 
chief lived long enough to see the day dawn and the day star of joy and peace 
arise upon the nation. He saw it, and he was glad. 

Alas ! alas ! he only saw the dawn. When the sun has risen full orbed and 
glorious, and a happy, reunited people are rejoicing in its light, it will shine upon 
his gxave ; but that grave will be a precioixs and a consecrated spot. The fri-inds 
of liberty and of the Union will repair to it in years and ages to come to pro- 
nounce the memory of its occupant blessed, and gather from his very ashes and 
from the rehearsal of his deeds and virtues fresh incentives to patriotism. They 
will then renew their vows of fidelity to their country and their God. 

Rev. Dr. Gray, Baptist, closed the solemn services by delivering a prayer, con- 
cluding as follows : 

Go3 of the bereaved, comfort and sustain the mourning family; bless the new 
Chief Magistrate. let the mantle of his predecessor fall upon him. Bless the 
Secretary of State, and his family ; God, if possible, according to thy will, spare 
their lives that they may render still important service to the country. Bless 
all the members of the cabinet ; endow them with wisdom from above. Bless 
the commanders in our armies and narj'-, and all the brave defenders of the coun- 
try. Give them continued success. Bless the ambassadors from foreign courts, 
and give us peace with the nations of the earth. O God 1 let treason, that has 
deluged our land with blood, and desolated our country, and bereaved our homes, 
and filled them with widows and orphans, which lias at length culminated in the 
assassination of the nation's choosen ruler, God of justice and avenger of the 
nation's wrongs, let the work of treason cease, and let ihe guilty perpetrators of 
Ihis horrible crime, be arrested and brought to justice. Oh! hear the cry and 
the prayer and the wail now rising from a nation's smitten and crushed heart, and 
doLver us from the power of our enemies, and send speedy peace into all our borders 
through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen. 

The corpse was then removed to the hearse, which was in front of the door of 
the Executive Mansion, and at two o'clock the procession was formed. It took 
the line of Pennsylvania Avenue. The streets were kept clear of all incumbrance, 
but the sidewalks were densely lined with people from the White House to the 
Capitol, a distance of a raile and a half. House-tops, porticoes, the windows of 
every house, and all elevated points were occupied by interested spectators. 

As the procession started, minute guns were fired near St. John's Church, the 
City Hall, and at the Capitol. The bells of all the churches in the city, and the 
Tarious fire-engines, were tolled. First in the order of procession was a detach- 
ment of colored troops ; then followed white regiments of infantry and bodies of 
artillery and cavalry ; navy, marine, and army officers on foot ; the pall bearers in 
carriages ; next the hearse, drawn by six white horses, the coffin prominent to 
every beholder. The floor on which it rested was strewn with evergreens, and 
the coffin covered with white flowers. The Diplomatic Corps, members of Con- 
gress, Govenors of States, delegations of various States, fire companies, civic as- 
sociations, clerks of the various departments, and others, all in the order of the 
procession, together with many public and private carriages, all closing up witli 
a large number of colored men. The body was conveyed, to and deposited in the 
rotunda of the Capitol. 

The nearest relation of the late President's family now here, are the two sons 
of the deceased, namely, Captain Robert and Thaddeus Lincoln; N. W. Edwards 
and C. M. Smith, of Springfield, Illinois, brothers-in-law of the late President, and 
Dr. Lyman Beecher Todd, of Lexington, Ky., Gen. T. B. S. Todd, of Dacotah, 
cousins of Mrs. Lincoln. Mrs. Lincoln was not present at the fttneral ; it is saii 
that she has not even seen her husband's corpse since the mormng of his dace»«H 



f» THI JLSSJLSiyATIO:^ OF PRESrEST IJNCOLS. 

WtMmgtcm. Ap-rH 19. — All iLe foreijii aunisiers, -rnh their »tl4clies, in «11 
MIf-aix in n-trna"r>er, were present at ilie ftmeral senrice *i the Erecstive M*ji5iu« 
ta-iKy. Their jOaop in the proceaooQ iras directly after the Presideat a&d catviK-; 
■dusxers. liJs for the trst time ia chit history, was in arcordaiiee mith the nscic-e 
«f foreirn naiaans, vhsre the I^picanaiic C-orps foUow the mcaiarch. He-ret .-•'".•r-,> 
t^ej have been placed in the programme after the ei-Presi'derxsv. ilw Jus:. 
tite Siipresae Conrt, axtd members of Ccairress. TJpoa die arrival cf the i.; 
tike procsefisiicm at the esast frc»ri O'f the Capitol to-day, the ocffin Lavint: been t-cn* 
■fee ;he centre of -die rotunda, the President starydrng at the foot cf the^offia, sur- 
wwDded by a throng c^f Saiai-ors and Ligh military oScers, aad a g-ms'l number 
•f Eh. -iaDi. as chief monmers. ihe entire ccnipai.y filling but a small portion of 
Ike «n -..-e place. I>r. Gnrley, at the head ci the coSn, uitered a fe-w brief az«d 
■■i]in lii I remarks, chiefiy in the •woirds of'Scripnipe, consigning the dead ashes;. 
muot animated by the soni of Abraham Lincoln, to the c.oiirse of natore, tc return 
t* T** ongiEial disEt. The deep tiSDes cf his voice reverberated from the Tast -oralis 
•a seSng of the gr^at rotunda, noir first nsed for FQch a pageant, acd during the 
re Bcesks zsany irere affected lo tears, 



{April ISO, 1S&5.) 

Oh ■*-» ! oi woe 1 ok woe ! 
Vhai a-yftJ joMea Mow 
Haockn^ed to famenl'mamaa vmt aoxigt nf mi'mitiiM 1 
Bast jcsterdsy ao fcgj^*. 

Are qmKiked the Uuiii^ figkte of joyii i 
We stagB^ to aad fro, 

Of OOB MMt Tlk, MOBt fad, MBSt id I 

Tbe tro3ii to uuEi dow, 
W<taAz Omit html 
Tb hr BwlmJ liii low*, 
Ike ider wiK ad iiM. obA fi^hfad of tkk MtiaR? 



Oil heoiy, heory cf on ! 

1 maUcm'B bejvt is totteriag, tttMmg 
Vr^^ s Mwrnmg asoreaky, 

1m A*! tw i»MTng rf— I <-yB 

Dawm cnAei &e feaifid bolt flat deft on* Head 
Alaa ! Mw siottenid Hea 
IkatHeadao calBaadwiae, 

AOm JBT gB m ior MP Ti miwl, for afacMtibi and 
W^ effs Oaa tears be#ii^ 
WHk kaata Sal to &e hriia, 

AOi wilb Wada^;to^ a Ftiher rf thi; Xs::on ! 



Bred Hi Che be 
Of EbTery'i leodkBcme pc' ^ r -sr t:: nasTiatioo ! 

Ok,dastord,^ 

Uakeird of m 
'Wbcre 



THE ASSASSINATION OF T'BXSWEST UNCOIN. §9 

Of Tva'wakienin^ litqies of peace aaad eoodlutaoQ ! 
Alaa!iriiat dool lium. gaon f 
In fary WiiiS. I'tit.ii.?. 

The mUd c: :. rt flain, 

Ajkd thoD >iiasi rinu^d ^rain 
Tbe dnmlmiii^ thmndethoHs of Wr^^'^'s reLsIiaiJcsa. 

Bat, natiaii denly boired, 

Be an thy gxiefaUovcd. 
Allowed be too thy wraih, thy righieoos iiMEgnatana ! 

Bat, li!^ thy martyred (d^si. 

Temper thy vrath'and gfiei. 
With coble s>dt«Mitral and geoerons XB<<>d?rm430B. 

^yau</ give eadi hia doe. 

Let thoK be sSaiai idio dev. 
Be blood for blood, the £ur and lavfid r^aration ! ' 

But, Jastice satined, ^ * 

"Let Wisdom be thy guide, r. 

Keep Mercy at thy side, , ^ 

Finish thy saered task, tmr Umtom's redoraium! ^ 

Then from the fimaraent 
Win he vfaom we Jamwit^ 
Onr natian's martyred saint, 
AFeaiin^ a girfden cranm, 
Bougnantly Io<& down, * 

jLnd \A his blfBwng rest for aye i^on tha natfim 



THE TBSSIDEST ASH THE PAIBTEB. 
As emy thing connected with the po^oasal histray of cox laT? tnnrd^red Prea- 
d«nt oas nov aeqnired a thrilling interest -aith the public. '«re — ^>e bo excuse 
for gi'nng the foDowii^ incident in his life : 

I have been urged by seTpral friends to send yon tt- : ^^t**s 

down by mysdf frmn Mr. Liraroln's lips, and althonsh - 
of your reados, the events of the last we^ gire it nov .. 

Tlie cireomstaaces onder which this copy was wtitteu s: t ' ^ 
President alone one erenisg, in his room, daring the tsi&e I ^ 
picture at the White House, last year. He pr^ioit^ tire- 
papers. and began to talk to me df iSiafaspearei He seat L 
to ^he library to bring a copy of tbe plays, and then re>; ' ~ 
farorite paraages, showii^ gennine appreciatitm of tLr 
ir to a sadder strain, he laid the bo<dc a;^fe, and, leaning 
^ "^ There is a poem which has been a great &Torite wiL. 
.fitst shown to me when a yonng man by a, fr^aid, and 'cr: 
^fax from a newspapo*. and learned by heart. I woolc 
irr^iii deal to know who wrote it, bat I have ncTcr been :. 

zi. half closing his eyes, he repeated to nie ihe lines ■&_ y.u. 

7 pleased aad intereste*!. I told him I wodW Hte. if ex? • r {f- 

( -irrcd. to write them down from his lips. He e-^! " " " 'y "^<> 

- g-Te them to me. A few days aftoward he asked :: ihe 

temporary stadio of Mr. Swsyne, the aa^~' - — • m at 

the TreaCTTy Department. AVhile he wx^- 7 re- 

minded of the poem, and said to him tha: ' - : 

10 me. He complied, and sitting apom s . : 

remember. I wrote the lines down, one bv ^ __ 

With gre_ ^ cry tnrv your?. 

F. B. CA3:?£yTK«. 



7U THE ASSASSIN'ATION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN. 



Oh ! why should the Spirit of Mortal be Proud F* 

Oh, why should the spirit of mcrtal be proud ? 
Like a swift, fleeing meteor, a fast flying cloud, 
A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave. 
He passeth from life to his rest in the grave. 

The leaves of the oak and the willow shall fade. 
Be scattered around and together be laid ; 
And the young and the old, and the low and the hip h 
Shall moulder to dust and together shall lie. 

The infant a mother attended and loved ; 
The mother that infant's afifection who proved ; 
The husband that mother and infant who blessed, 
Each, all, are away to their dwellings of Rest. 

The hand of the king that the sceptre hath bori>«» ; 
The brow of the priest that the mitre hath worn •. 
The eye of the sage and the heart of the brave, 
Are hidden and lost in the depths of the grave. 

The peasant, whose lot viAs to sow and to reap ; 
The herdsman who climbed with his goats up the ste«p ; 
The beggar who wandered in search of his bread. 
Have faded away like the grass that we tread. 

So the multitude goes, like the flower or the weed 
That withers away to let others succeed ; 
So the miiltitiade comes, even those we behold. 
To repeat every talc that has often been told. 

For we are the same our fathers have been : 
We see the same sights our fathers have seen — 
We drink the same stream and view the same sun — 
And run the same course our fathers have run. 

The thoughts we are thinking our fathers would think ; 
From the death we are shrinking our fathers would shrink ; 
To the life we are clinging they also would cling : 
But it speeds for us all, like a bird on the wing. 

Xhey loved, but the story we cannot unfold ; 
They scorned, but the heart of the haughty is cold ; 
They grieved, but no wail from the:.- slumber will come ; 
'ihey joyed, but the tongiie of their gladness is dumb. 

They died, aye ! they died , we things that are now, 
Tnat walk on the turf that lies over their brow. 
And make in their dwellings a transient abode. 
Meet the things that they met on their pilgrimage road 

Yea ! hope and despondency, pleasure and pain. 
We mingle together in sunshine and rain ; 
And the smile and the tear, the song and the dirge. 
Still follow each other, like surge upon surge. 

Tis the wink of an eye, 'tis the draught of a breath ; 
From the blossom of health to the paleness of death, 
From the gilded saloon to the bier and the shroud — 
Oh, why should the spirit of mortal be proud ? 

• 

• [This poem is hj V/m. Knox, a Scottish poet, who died iu ISi.l. It is preserred la a tolleiUon MtidAd 
ehriatian Baaiads," edited by the late U. W. Griswold, D.V.—Pub:ialier] 



e 



THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN. 71 

LINCOLN MONUMENT AT FAIRMOUNT PARK. 

The late President Lincoln has become immortal. Millions in future gener*- 
iions will revere his name. It will go to posterity ^Yith that of Washington, and, 
■like it, become all the brighter as time progresses. Although it is not absolutely 
jiecess'ary to erect a material monument to perpetuate the memory of President 
^Lincoln any more than for Washington, yet such a memento would exhibit the 
respect entertained by the people of the present time for the great chief who has 
fallen. It is, therefore, suggested to the citizens of Philaifelphia, that measures 
be adopted to have a monument erected at Fairmount Park in memory 
of Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth President of the United States. The City 
Councils would be a proper body to give shape to the necessary proceedings. 
The people would respond to any well-digested suggestion having in view the 
speedy erection of a grand towering monmnent to the most illustrious man of 

the age. 

Independence HaU. 

This time-honored place has been arranged for the reception of the remains of 
the deceased President Lincoln. It is dressed in solemn grandeur, inspiring a 
sacred awe to those who enter beneath its sombre shades. The old chandelier in 
entirely enveloped in deep folds of black, and from the centre of the shaft the 
long robes of material pend in graceful festoons— spring, so to speak, from a base 
line just above the windows. This forms a sort of tent-covering. The black 
drapery is continued upon the walls, covering every thing from view except the 
following : The likeness of Martha Wasliington, that of Wm. Penn, Gen. Jackson, 
Gen. La Fafayette, Gen. Harrison, and the beautiful painting representing Wash- 
ington on horseback at the head of his army. The paintings are festooned witli 
drapery, the whole being done in artistic style. The pedestal containing the old 
bell is elaborately draped. It is designed to place the head of the bier against or 
towards the pedestal, so that tlie motto on the bell will be near the head of tha 
lionorcd deceased, '-Proclaim Liberty throughout the land and unto all the in- 
habitants thereof." Steps will be placed leading to the two front windows of the 
hall, so that two entrances will be afforded the citizens. They will make their exit 
through two windows, to the rear, on Independence Square. The parties so en- 
tering will pass in single file on both sides of the deceased. This arrangement will 
allow twice as many to pass in review of the body than if the old plan had been 
adhered to. Allowing one person each second to pass in review, would be equira- 
lent to 7,200 per hour. 

A Noble Sentiment. 
We chp the following from the Philadelphia Sunday Times of Sunday : 
" Our Nation's Loss. — If our columns do not contain the variety with which we 
usually strive to fill them, our i-eaders must attribute it to the deadening influence 
of the terrible calamity of Friday night. With our feelings absorbed by the con- 
flicting sentiments aroused by the unprecedented crime committed in Washing- 
Ion, we are unable to write upon general subjects. The grief that caused the 
euspension of business ^^esterday, is felt as much in editorial rooms as in counting- 
houses and ofiices, and the pen refiises to chronicle any thing disconnected with 
the ber<^avement of the nation. 

Every loyal citizen feels as if a near relative had been lost, and many of those 
who never saw the President experience the same solemn regret as if,he had been 
a familiar friend. In the sudden falling of this unexpected blow the country ia 
•tunned, and is as yet unable to realize the loss. Coming in the hou" o'" so miich 



7 J THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN. 

rejoicing, when twenty millions of people were exulting in the overthrow of li,e 
strongest bulwark of the Eebellion, its severity is doubled. 'J'lie rehgious festival 
of Easter is as much clouded by this catastrophe as tlie fasts of Passion AVeek 
were cheered by the news of our military succes.^es. 

"Again the hand of Providence strikes the balance; we gain, and we lose. In 
our weeping eyes the single loss outweighs a thousand such gains, and there is 
needed a greater exercise of religion and i)hilosophy than can be controlled by the 
majority of men, to say that ' all is for the best.' In our hour of deepest need, the 
President was given to us by heaven, and on Good Friday, the Day of Sacrifice, 
tlie day on which our Redeemer suffered on this cross for our sins, he is required 
from U8. Truly, ' the Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away.' " 



ABEAHAM LINCOLN IN INDEPENDENCE HALL. 

We reprint here the report of the speech of the late President Abraham 
Lincoln in Independence Hall, on February 22d, 18G1, (Washington's birthday), 
when he was on his route to Washington for the purpose of his Inauguration. 
It was his first speech in Philadelphia, and the portions Avhich we have italicised 
give evidence both that he looked forward to tlie probability of assassination, and 
that what he said or did, he was, God willing, " ready to die by." 

I am filled with deep emotion at finding myself standing here in the place 
where were collected together the wisdom, the patriotism, the devotion to prin- 
ciple, from which sprung the institutions under wliich we live. You liave kindly 
suggested to me, that in my hands is the task of restoring peace to our distracted 
country. I can say in return, sir, that all the political sentiments I entertain 
liave been drawn, so far as 1 have been able to draw them, from the sentiments 
which originated, and were given to the world from this hall in which we stand. 
I have never had a feeling, politically, that did not spring from the sentiment.s 
embodied in the Declaration of Independence. I have often pondered over the / 
dangers which were incurred by the men mIio assembled here, and adopted the 
Declaration of Independence. I have pondered over the toils that were endured 
by the officers and soldiers of the army who achieved that indepemlence. I have 
often incjuired of myself what great principle or idea it was that kept this Con- 
federacy so long together. It was not the mere matter of the separation of the 
colonies from the mother land, but something in that Declaration giving liberty, 
not alone to the people of this country, but hope for the world for all future time. 
It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted 
from the shoulders of all men, and that all should ha\ e an equal chance. This i? 
the sentiment embodied in the Declaration of Independence. 

How, my friends, can this country be saved upon that basis ? If it can, I will 
consider myself one of the happiest men in the Avorld if I can help to save it. If 
it can't be saved upon that principle it will be truly awful. But if this country 
cannot behoved without giving up that principle. luas about to say I woidd rather 
he assassinated on tliis spot than to surrender it." 

Now, in my view of the present aspect of alTairs, there is no need of bloodshc I 
and war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and I 
may say in advance there will be no bloodshed imlcss it be forced upon the Gov- 
ernment. The Government will not use force unless force is used against it. 
[Prolonged applause, and cries of "That's the proper sentiment."] My friends, 
this is a wholly unprepared speech. I (hd not expect to be called upon to say a 
word lyhen I came here. I supposed I was merely to do something towards raisnig 
this flag. I may, therefore, have said something indiscreet. But I have said 
nothing but what J am willing to live by, and, in the pleasure of Almighty God, 
die by." 

AVe reproduce this report verbatim, the President himself having mentioned to 
< IT iieporter that it was the most faithful verbal interpretation in type of any of 



THE ASSASSTN'ATION' OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN". 73 

his speeches which had ever been made. We reproduce it, not on account of 
this, but with the simple impulse to lay before our fellow-citizens the Grst words 
ever uttered in public in this city by Abraham Lincoln— the more especially as 
they mark the idea which had so frequently obtruded itself upon his mind, that 
he might ultimately become the victim of sectional vengeance. 



LETTER FROM "OCCASIONAL." 

Washmgton, Ajiril 19, 1865.— It is precisely four years since the mob at Balti- 
more fired upon the Massachusetts volunteers on their way to the defence of 
Washington. How strange it is that the anniversaries of some of the brightest 
and some of the saddest events should have been greeted by a great victory or a 
great calamity ! Lee fled before the triumphant legions of Meade on the Fourth 
of July. Grant captured Vicksburg on the same day. Lincoln fell on the anni- 
versary of the evacuation of Fort Sumpter, and his honored corpse is borne to its 
resting place on the same day when, four years ago, the first Northern blood was 
shed by traitor hands. And yet more expressive still— and I name it not to be 
betrayed into irreverent comparisons— our good President, after all his acts of 
forgiveness of the enemies of his country, died at their hands on Good Friday, the 
day of the Crucifixion of the Son of God and the Saviour of man. And I firmly 
believe if Mr. Lincoln could have spoken after the fatal shot of the assassin had 
shattered his brain, he would have exclaimed of his murderer : " Father, forgive 
•ihem, for they know not what they do." And why did they not know it? 
Because they were taking the life of their best friend— he who had pardoned so 
many of their associates, and who, only three evenings before, had spoken authori- 
tative words of clemency and reconciliation. 

And do we ever reflect, in the midst of our grief and wonder that such a deed 
should have stained this age of progress and refinement, that Abraham Lincoln 
could have died at no time when his surpassing excellence would have shone with 
80 rare an effulgence ? He passed from us as the land was echoing with song3 
of joy ovei- the triumphs of liberty. He entered upon eternity as a pious people 
were thaiiking God that he had stricken our country's foe. How much better 
than if he had gone from us in the gloom of national despondency ! Even as the 
summons came, there was a wondrous peace at his heart, and a felicitous sense 
of duty done. No monarch ever had such a funeral. Although not so elaborate 
and ornate as the pageant of the dead Eighth Henry, or the return of Napoleon 
to the soil of France after he had fretted and smouldered away in the rocky island 
of the sea, it was the proudest tribute ever paid to the memory of an American 
President. The suddenness and the manner of his death intensified the national 
sorrow, and called forth a burst of popular gratitude without a parallel. I wish I 
could describe the wondrous scene. It was a lovely day. The air was filled with 
the perfume and the harmonics of jocund spring. Crowds had come from all the 
States. Thw government was typified in Andrew Johnson ; the army was repre- 
sented by Grant and his stafi"; the navy by Farragut and his sea-hons ; the 
judiciary by Chase and his associates; the Cabinet, the Congress, the dcpart- 
m/mts, the freedmen, the released prisoners, the penitent rebels, the clergy, the 
professions— the People, the base of the mighty pyramid, the foundation of pri- 
vate rights and public safety. I leave to others the filling up of the picture. Let 
me borrow from an old-fashioned New-England poet, the beautiful wreath he wov* 



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THE ASSASSINATIOX OF PRESIDEXT LIXCOLN. SCf 

hollisli designs of the hold, had men who sought the Ufe of the nation. The deed 
)3 coiisuinmated, but the liei)ubhc still lives. 

The procession commenced to move from the Executive Mansion precisely at 
2 o'clock P. M. in the exact order laid down in the programme. It is now 3^ 
o'( iock. and still they come. AVashington has never witnessed any thing like what 
ii passing here to-day. The day is glorious — clear, warm, and genial — and it 
would seem that all our people must be abroad. There is a great influx of 
strangers here from abroad, and all the immediate country round about has con- 
trilnitod largely to swell the multitude. From early morn, up to the present 
hour, Peimsylvania avenue, from the capitol to the White House, on either side, 
has been one compact throng of liuman beings. It is not too much to say that a 
hundred thousand people witnessed the imposing demonstrations of the day. 

To describe accurately the incidents of the occasion would require more time 
than we now have at command, as this must soon go forward, or it will fail to 
reach its destination in season. It may suffice for the present to say that all 
pusscd ofiF in order, and nothing occurred to mar the solemnities of the occasion. 

We may remark that at the point where we stood, on the Avenue, when the car 
passed upon which rested all that is mortal of the great deceased, there was a 
spontaneous outburst of indignation, not loud, but deep, against the deep damna- 
tion of his taking off; and this was not all — tears, copious tears, were observed on 
many a face. The people feel their loss, and they will avenge it; in no violent 
way, but through the channels af the law outraged justice shall be vindicated. 
ITiis day, as well as that upon which the good man fell, will long be remembered ; 
indeed, it can never be forgotten. 

The City Prior to the Paneral. 
The day is beautiful and quite warm. The Avenue is filled with persons to 
witness the mournful funeral procession. Civic and military processions are 
passing to the appointed place of rendezvous. All business is entirely suspended, 
and the citizens have turned out e?i masse to pay the last sad respect to the ' 
memory of the late President LTNCor,x. P^very window, housetop, and availabk 
spot is filled with people, though it will be two hours before the funeral cortegt 
will pass. 

Rumor. 
It is rumored on the streets this P. M. that Judge CAMPBELL.and R. M. T. Hca 
TKR have been arrested in Richmond, by order of President Johnsox. The ston 
lucks confirmation. 

Another Arrest. 
John T. Ford, proprietor of Ford's Theatre, was arrested in Baltimore yester 
da} evening, and is now confined in the Old Capitol Prison. 



The Burial Place of President Lincoln. 
Washington, April 19. — Governor Ooi.k.-!bv to-day received the following 
dosdatch: 

Springfield, 111., ApTiT, 18, 18G5. — A national monument fund is on foot, ;ind a 
ploi, of ground, six acres in extent in the heart of the city, has been selected aa 
the burial place of our late lamented President. 

SnAKox Trj;0Ai.K, Secretary of State. 



86 THil ASSXSSIXATION O? PRESIDE:sT LINCOKjr, 

The follo-wing " Dirge" upon the death of President Lincoln was published in 
the Ev^fu'tig BuU^in, upon the very day of the announcement of his death. Sat- 
Hrday last, and by next morning: (Sabbath) was set to music and sung in very 
many of the church dioirs of this city and neig-hboring towns. It has since been 
sung in AVashingion. New York, Boston, and other cities upon occasions of hia 
ftmoral discourses. — Publisher. 

DIBGE. 

[bT RICHARD COB.] 

Toll: toU! toll: 

On every hand. 
Ye bells throughout the h\nd ; 
Washington's great compeer now lies. 
"With death-sealed eyes. 
And pallid face upturned towards the skies ! 
Toll: toll: toll! 
On every hand. 

Ye bells throughout the land ! 
ToU! toU! toU! 

Weep : weep ! weep ! 
On every hand. 
Ye patriots in the land : 
Brave Lincoln's dead '. Great God : and can it be f 
Henceforth tJiere's notliing in mortality 
Thai"? serious I" Help us to look to thee : 
Weep : weep ! weep ! 
On every hand 
Ye patriots in the land, 
Weep : weep ! weep ! 

Pray! pray: pray: 
On every hand. 
Ye Christians in the land ; 
So more his honest face will greet tlie sun — 
His day is finished, and his labor done ; 
A crown of glory rests his brow upon ! 
Pray I pray ! pray ! 
On every hand, 
Ye Christians in the land, 
Pray 1 pray ! pray ! 



Overwhelming Evidence against the Assassin. 

BOOTHS LETTER TO J. S. CLARK, ESQ. 



Deeply Interesting Particolars of the Assault on ISr. Ss^^ard— Fearful Mag- 
nitude of the Conspiracy— Seizure of the Conspirator G. A. Atzeroth in hia 
bed — Booth's OSvstctious movements previous to the Assassination. 



Justice on the Felon's Track. 

Prompt upon the heels of the staggering assassination, the most rigid^ active 

•ad eihaustiTe examinations and investigations were opened to identify the blood- 

»t»ined fellows and visit them with the full measure of public retribution. It wm 

•4 once discovered that the foul murder embraced a comprehensive network »f 



THE ASSASSIXATIOX OF PRESIDENT LIXCOLN". '87 

conspirators, whose original purpose vras to take the life of all the kadiu"- irem- 
bers of the goverumcut, both civil and military, and thus paralyze the nation and 
throw both society and government into hopeless confusion. Hvmdreds of detec- 
tives were at once despatched in all directions. Several arrests were speedily made 
and are still being made. Amid the widespread excitement and suspicions, a 
number of innocent parties were inevitably arrested, and upon examination disr- 
charged. Other innocent persons have been painfully involved by the alleged 
principal conspirator. Several of the leading assassins have been identified beyond 
a doubt, while new evidence is daily coming out identifying others with the great 
crime. The government is still pursuing its investigations, taking testimony, and 
pushing its inquiries in all possible directions, but by an express order of the Sec- 
retary of War, all the facts elicited are kept sub rosa until the whole plot is fully 
unravelled. Some, however, have leaked out, which we are at liberty to give, to- 
gether with a mass of interesting incidents and circumstances connected with the 
tragedy, which have been accumulating with fairly oppressive profusion from the 
hour of the murder to the present moment. 

John Wilkes Booth. 

As to the most conspicuous actor in the startling drama, public opinion fas- 
tened at once with terrible tenacity upon John AVilkes Booth as the murderer of 
the President, and the evidence convicting him of the monstrous crime has since 
rolled up in massive proportions. Laura K!eene, the actress, who was performing 
on the night of the tragedy, in the play entitled the American Cousin, identifiea 
him positively. Nor is this lady alone in her identification. Another actor, 
Harry Ilawk, whose father hves in Chicago, and who was also acting at Ford's 
theatre on the eventful night, wrote to his father soon after the tragedy, givin" 
some interesting facts. AVe give that portion of the letter relating to the great 
calamity, as follows. 

Letter from the "Asa Trenchard" of the Tragedy. 

WasMngt07i, Sundar/, April 16. — This is the first opportimity I have had to 
write to you since the assassination of our dear President, on Friday night, as I 
ftave been in custody nearly ever since. I was one of the principal witnesses of 
that sad affair, being the only one on the stage at the time of the fatal shot. 

I was playing "Asa Trenchard" in the American Cousin. The '' old lady" of 
the tlieatre had just gone off the stage, and I M^as answering her exit speech when 
I heard the shot fired. I turned, looked up at the President's box, heard the man 
exclaim '-Sic semper tyrannis," saw him> jump from the box, seize the flag on the 
staff, and drop to the stage ; he slipped when he gained the stage, but he got upon 
his feet in a moment, brandished a large knife, saying, " The South -shall be free !" 
turned his face in the direction I stood, and I recognized him as John Wilkes 
Booth. He ran towards me, and I (seeing the knife, I thought I was the one he 
was after), ran off the stage and up a flight of stairs. He made his escape o<ii. 
of a door direotly in the rear of the theatre, mounted a horse and rode off. 

The above all occiirrcd in hie space of a quarter of a minute, and at the ticis* 
I did not know that the President was shot — although, if I had tried to stop him 
he would have stabbed me. 

I am now under one thousand dollars bail to appear as a witness when Booth 
is tried,, if caught. 

All the above I have sworn to. You may imagine the excitement in the 
theatre, which was crowded, with cries of " Hang him I" " Who was he ?" etc. 
from every one present. 



88 ' THE AbSASSIXATION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN". 

In about fifteen minutes after the occurrence the President waa carried oat 
and across the etreet. I was requested to walk down to the poUce head-quarters 
and give my evidence. They thou put me under one thousand dollars bond, to 
appear at ten o'clock next morning. I then walked about for some time as the 
city was wild with excitement, and then I went to bed. At half-past three 1 
was called by an aid of the Pre.sident, to go to the house where lie was lying, 
Secretary Stanton and other high olficials assembled there. I did so, and went 
to bed again. On Saturday I gave bail. 

It was the saddest thing I evei" knew. The city only the night before waa 
illuminated, and everybody was so hap2)y. Now it is all sadness. Everbody 
looks gloomy and sad. 

On that night the play was going off so well, Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln enjoyed it 
60 much. SJie was laughhig at my speech when the shot was fired. In fact, it 
was one laxigh from the time the curtain went up until it fell; and to think of 
such a sorrowful ending 1 II is an era in my life that I never shall forget- 
Inclosed is a piece of the fringe of the flag the President was holding when shot. 

Startling Davelopments. 

Further developments serve to confirm that the plot to assassinate the Presi- 
dent and Cabinet was planned long ago, and that the conspirators were only 
•W'aitiag for a favorable opportunity to carry out their designs. That the 
''Knights of the Golden Circle" were the originators of the conspiracy there is 
no doubt, and it is also assumed that the 4th of March was fixed for the com- 
mission of the deed. The assassination of Mr. Lincoln throws light upon much 
which had seemed strange in the conduct of Booth during the past winter, and 
there is good reason to believe that in murdering Mr. Lincoln he was complying 
with an obligation of the order of which he was a member, and which obligation 
had fallen on him by lot. 

Booth in Boston. 

Boston, April 15th. John Wilkes Booth was in this city during the latter pan 
of last week, and we believe as late as last Monday of this week. 

He has frequently visited Boston, having friends here, and we did not hear that 
his visit on this occasion was in any way connected with business. He has ap- 
peared upon the stage only a few times this season, having interested himself in 
oil speculations, and by that means becoming quite wealthy. 

At the beginning of the season he gave up all engagements that he liad already 
nyide, and for some time devoted himself almost exclusively to his business at 
Oil Creek, where at one time, at least, he was associated with an old friend who 
formerly resided in the South. 

His last appearance on the stage in this city was at the Howard Atheneum, 
about a year since. At that time he was vehement and bitter in denunciations 
of Mr. Lincoln and his administration, and so violent in his expressions of joy 
ever every Union defeat, that he was frequently cautioned, and at last avoided 
by his brother actors. 

When he left the city he expressed his undying hatred for the North and ;he 
Union, and threw out some vague hints for vengeance, which were not regarded 
at the time as meaning any more than tliat the rebellion should succeed. 

Statement of an Eye-witnesa. 

Mr. James P. Ferguson, who was present at Ford's on the niglit 4i the assasi- 
nation, makes a statement to the following- piirport : 



IHE ASSASSINATION OF PRRISIDENT LINCOLN'. 89 

He Went to the tlieatre with a lady on Friday night, for the express purpose of 
iceing General Grant, who was announced to be present. Mr. Ferguson saw the 
presidential party enter the box, but of course did not see the Lieutenant-General, 
He, however, continued to watch the box, thinking the GeneraJ might intend to 
slip quietly in, in order to avoid the demonstrations that would attend his re- 
cognition. 

When the second scene of the third act of the play was reached, Mr. Ferguson 
saw and recognized John Wilkes Booth making his way along the dress-circle 
to the President's box. Of this box Mr. Ferguson had an excellent view, being 
«cated in the dress circle just opposite to it, next to the private boxes on tli« 
other side of the circle. This seat he had purposely chosen to afford his com- 
panion a good view of the Lieutenant-General, and, for the reason already stated, 
was narrowly watching the entrance to it. 

Mr. Ferguson and Booth had met in the afternoon and conversed, and wer«». 
well acquainted with each other, so that the former immediately recognized him. 
Booth stopped two steps from the door, took off his hat, and holding it in his'left 
hand, leaned against the wall behind Jam. In this attitude he remained for half a 
minute, then, adds, Mr. Ferguson, he stepped down one step, put his hand on the 
door of the little corridor leading to the box, bent his knee against it. The door 
opened, and Booth entered, and was for the time hidden from ^[r. Ferguson's 
sight. 

Mr. Ferguson watched for his appearance in the box, desiring to see who in 
that party the actor could be on such intimate terms with, as to feel warranted 
in la'dng such a liberty. Whether Booth shut the door of the little corridor or 
left it open behind him, Mr. Ferguson fears to state positively; but from what he 
observed of the door, and for reasons hereafter to be stated, believes he did shut 
it.. The shot was the next thing Mr. Ferguson remembers. He saw the smoke, 
then perceived Booth standing upright, with both hands raised, but at that 
moment saw no weapon or any thing else in eitlier. Booth then sprang to the 
front of the box, laid his left hand on the railing in front, was checked an Instant, 
evidently by his coat or pants being caught in somctliing, or held back by some- 
body. (It was Major Rathbun.) 

A post in front obstructed the view of Mr. Fergurson, but Booth soon changed 
his position, and was again clearly seen by Mr. F. He now had a knife in his. 
right hand, which he also laid upon the railing, as he already had his left, and 
vaulted out. As his legs passed between the folds of tlie flags decorating the 
box, his spur, which he wore on the right heel, caught the drapery, and brought 
it down, tearing a strip with it. When he let go the railing, he still clutched the 
shining knife. He crouciied as he fell, falling on one knee, and stretched forth 
both hands to help himself to recover an erect position, which he did with the 
rapidity and easy agility of an athletic. 

Having recovered his equilibrium, Booth strode across the stage to the first en 
trance, passing behind the actor on the stage (Harry Hawk.) When he reached 
the otiier side of the stage, just ere he became invisible, by passing into the en- 
1 ranee, he looked up, and Mr. Ferguson said he hoard him say, "I have done it," 
and then he lost sight of him. 

Mr. Ferguson visited the theatre on the day following the murder, and, with 
Miss Harris, the lady who was in the box with the President, her father. Judge 
Olin, of the Criminal Court, and Judge Carter, examined the box. 

The iiuzzling hole in the unused door of the box was closely scrutinized by the 
light of a candle, and was fo'ind to possess indubitable marks of having been 



P9 THE ASSJLSSCfATIOX OF PKlSirKyT LIXOOU. 

mih^iael vHik a tr.zfe. Toe ball extrsicte^ from tike heaci c-f the Fr?5l3<-:L: is of 
^ndi IsTg-er diameiter litaji ifce hrie. Tlkc e^ges of liie hole slicw ihe inj^ks of 
a tnife-'biade xery ciMrly. 

iv>ici the shoe h»d besn fred, ICss Harris roee to her faet to call for irater for 
Mr. l±a?cln_ axta mstincih- no-ticed a bar of w&oi pJaeea across iht door of the 
Irrdc c:-TTi5c*r, C'oe end r?=tii|r apiinst the ■wall into irliidi it "sras partially let by 
a CTit- or Tilbar an inoentaii-Mi. Sicoc^jed in tbe iralL The other end iras braced 
tiraiiist ihe wp-. :f the door frame. This bar, as the dc^cr opens in-wsuni. 

•wj^ul-d eirertBBL-_ - not irholly rrsTent. all inCTess into iLe t»-Di frcoa the 

Ci«s5 circie, aad •w^n.i i.so detain the egress of any one in the bci. 

Boot2i on Isunortal Pame. 

It is rrprrtfS that the noTr notorions Bocth remarked to a prominent c: tires: 
•f Cler-elaiid i T?ir aiid a half aro. that ""the icsn -who killed Abrshsm Lii. ?:•;:: 
■would C'crcTT a hizhsr nirhe of fame tbn-n G-eorr? Wa ^'h'T' y tirn." Durinir a tha- 
ata&csZ. .cnraremsi.^: of his ax Chitaf ^3. in I*£i-3s ^ rsn^rked one day, " What a 
g^oriotis opT'irnmiTT there is f^T a Tnrji xo immortalise himself by killing 
linccei." -Whit pr^od ■wonld thai do?" he ■■■as asked. He then quoted thes« 

** The aELbitiox!.? TDu^i "who £red the Eph^aan doose 

OntliTes izi fs-ne tLe j-c-ns fool irho reared rL" 

"Weill, -who -wiLS •Lhat arzibiiic^z? y--a*i — -what iras his nMsneT" was then asked 
•Uiai I dcii't kno-or," reT'l;ed BoTth. -Then •where's d» £b&« yo« speak of? 
TM^, cmj TT-i-. TTTiiiT- tells xi=. r^anpic^sed L'm. From this rt wijtidd seem that tlie 
MMMsgrn has liad the r:iiimi55:.:a cf this horrid crime in his mind for at least t»t 

•cdjwe years. 

Eeroarkable Letter of the Assassm. 
Thefc'"^ -__-._, 

of John '■ -e 

pr«ss by fiou_ _rd, U- a. iiarshai of the Easiem. I» snici of Penn- 

sylrajiia. It -c _. r to that oEter ty Jchn S- Ciarke, wao is a brothcr- 

in-lav of Mr. Booth. The history cocmected idth it is saeaeriiat peculiar. In 

y 01^- " ?r tras d^>oeited -with Mr. Clarke by Booth, in a sealed 

•PTT- - m^," Jlr. Clarke beicr imorant cf its conteala. In 

i at Mr lag^ and it 

- . iS nc^BT ?T ;,: the paper 

: his Eognatcre- "wi^ . - .rs to be in a ci&ereat ink from that 

w . . iy of the letter, aid -_.-. :: .iii the Isn^uafc employed could no; 

h&Tz : to it originally. Aftersrards he returned the package to Mr. 

. .1. for safe keepiskg, seakd, and beariag tfae superscription '• J. WHkea 

Tl,.^. ^Zj-rltysare 'vras pre g c n xd bj the &ziuly widtoat s^^icion of its natore. 
After the aSietin^ infiBRBataoB of tlae assasBztatioii of the President, vhich casje 
rpon the fioBaly of Mr. Chirb with crashing: force, it was considered proper to 
oppfi ti« f* --' •■'^ There "srere fow»d in it the follairins; paper, ■with some serea- 
thlrty U:- ; hands, acd eertifcates of ^ares in cH companies. Mr. 

ClarV .-...■»'' J. MUlwardL in whc«e custody it 

acn -n; to hare bc-en prepr.red by 

liouti^ »»t - ' ' ' .ation; and 

frosa tl»e . . _t President 



THE ASSAS3IXAT10X OF PEESIDZ5T LIXCOL^T. 91 

»Ti<3 carry him oS" to Virginia. If lliis was meditate it failed, and Src-m iw-.V^ng 
& prisoner of the President np to his assassination wa? an ei?T step for a ras.c of 
perrerted principles. The italics are Booth's own. Tlie letter is as foUc-a : 

^. sli*>^ 

3It Peae Bie : Yon may use this as you think best. But a£ s-ome may wish 
to kiiow ichen, vcho and tchy, azid as I know not JiotB to direct, I give it (in the 
words of your master). 

To Whom it May Conrem : 

Bight or wrong, God ju^e me. cot man. For be mr motrre good or bad, of 
one thing I am sure, the ■sting condemnation of lae North. 

I loTe peace more than hfe. HaTC loved the Union beyond expfcssi^m. For 
four years hare I waited, hoped and prayed for tlie dark clouds to break, and for 
a r^toration of our former sunshine. To wait 3ong?r would b^ a crime. All 
hope for peace is dead. My prayers have proved as idle as my hopes. God's will 
be done. I go to see and share the bitter en^ * 

I have ever held the South were right. The very nomination of Abraham 
Lincoln, four years ago, spoke plainly, war — ^war upon .Sou'liera rishts and insti- 
tutions. His election proved it^ " Await an overt act." Te?. tin you are bound 
aaA plundered- What foDy ! The South was wise. AVbo tLiuks of argument or 
patience when the finger of his enemy presses on the trigger ? In a foreigm. war 
I, too, could say, " country, right or wrong." But in a stru^Ie tuck as ovrt, 
(where the brother tries to pierce the brothers heart), for Goo s sake, choose the 
right. When a country like this spnrns jasttce from her side she forfeits the a]le- 
giance of every honest freeman, and should leave him. untrammelled by any fealty 
soever, to act as his conscience may approve. 

People of the North ! to hate tyranny, to love liberty and jiBtice. to strike at 
wrong and oppression, was the teaching of our Others. The study of our early 
history will not let in« forget it, and may it never. 

This country was formed for the tchtte. not for the black man. And looking 
apon African davery firom the same stand^ioint held by the noble franiers of our 
Constitution. I. for one, have ever considered it one of the greatest blessings (for 
themselves and for. us) that God ever bestowed upon a favored nation. Witne«3 
heretofore our weslth and power, witness their elevation and enlightenment abot ? 
their race elsewhere. I have lived among it most of iny life, and have seen 7«s« 
harsh treatmenr from master to man than I have beheld in the North from father 
to son. Xet, heaven knows, no one would be wiBing to do more for the negro race 
than I, could I but see a way to stUl better their condition. 

But Lincoln's policy is only preparing the way for th^ total annahHaition. 
The South are not, nor have been fighting for the continuance of slavery. TL? 
iirst battle of Bull Run did away with that idea. Tlie causes sinee ffr rear have 
been as noble and greater far than those that urged our fathers on. Even sh'^nld 
we allow they were wrong at the -b^inning of this contest, cmdiy and infutiic* 
have made the wrong b^ome the right, and they stand now '(before the woxider 
and admiration of the world), as a noble band of patriotic heroes. Uereaftei', 
reading of their deeds, Thermopylse will be forgotten. 

^Vhen I aided in the capture and execution c f John Brown, (who was a murderer 
on our western border, who was fairly tried and eowcicied. before i^:. i:::.os,rtial 
judge and jury, of treason, and who, by the way. Las since been :. 1,1 

■*ras proud of my little share in tLe iransaciion, for I deemed it lay :hat 

I was helping our common country to perform an a-c-t of ;n?lj<re. £iii -La: was 
a crime in poor John Brown is now considered (by themselves) as ihe greatest 
and only virtae of the whole RepubUcan party. Strange tiansmigTation ! Vice 
is to become a mriue, simply becaase more indalge in it. 

1 thought then, as now, that the abotitionists were the only trailers in the land, 
and tliat the entire party deserved the sane fate as poor old Brown, not because 

th^ wish to abolish slavery, but on account of the means they hav? : =r.T. 

ored to use ta effect that abolition. If Brown were living, 1 dou" : ' ac 

hims^f would set slavery against the Uni^n. Most, or many, in v^. -'^^ tio, 

and openjy curse the Unit n. if the South are to reium and retain a sinjie right 
guarantesi to them by erery tie which we once revered as saercd. The 8onth 
can make no choice. It is either eitermiiiaiion or slavery for ihemsdces {\ 
^than death) to draw from. I know my choice. 



92 THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN. 

I have also studied hard to discover upon what grounds the riglit of a Stat« to 
secede has been denied, wlien our very name, United States, and the Declaration 
of Independence, both provide for secession. But this is no time for words • I 
write m haste. I know how foolish I shall be deemed for undertaking sucli a 
step as this, where, on one side, I have many friends and every thing to make me 
hap^y, where my profession alo7ie has gained me an income of more (hair tw3nty 
thousand dollars a year, and where my great personal ambition in my profession 
has such a great field for labor. On the other hand, the south have never 
bestowed upon me one kind word ; a place now where I have no friends, except 
beneath the sod ; a place where I must either become a private soldier or a 
beggar. To give up all of the former for the Za%, besides my mother and 
sisters, whom I love so dearly (although they so widely differ with me in opinion) 
seems insane ; but God is my judge. I love jusiice more than I do a country 
that disowns ^ ; more than fame and wealth ; more (heaven pardon me if wron"-) 
more than a happy home. I have never been upon a battle field, but my country- 
men, could you all but see the realiti/ or effects of this horrid war. as I have 
seen them in every State (save Virginia), I know you would think like me. and 
would pray the Almighty to create in the northern mind a sense of right and 
justice (even should it possess no seasoning of mercy), and that he would dry up 
this sea of blood between us, which is daily growing wider. Alas ! poor country 
IS she to meet her threatened doom ? Four years ago I would have given a 
thousand lives to see her remain (as I had always known her) powerful and 
unbroken. And even now I would hold my life as nought, to see her what sho 
was. 0, my friends ! if the fearful scenes of the past four years had neven been 
enacted, or if what has been had been but a frightful dream from which we could 
now awake, with what overflowing hearts could we bless our Ood and pray for 
his continued favor. How I have loved the old flag can never now be known. 
A few years since and the world could boast of mme so pure and spotless. Bui 
I have of late been seeing an<l hearing of the bloody deeds of which she has been 
made (he emblem, and would shudder to think how changed she has grown 
0, how I have longed to see her break from the mist of blood and death that 
eircles round her folds, spoiling her beauty and tarnishing her honor. But no • 
day by Jay she has been dragged deeper and deeper into cruelty and oppression' 
till now (m my eyes) her once bright red stripes look hke bloody gashes or\ 
tlie face of heaven. I look now upon my early admiration of her glories as a 
dream. My love (as things stand to-day) is for the South alone. Nor do I deem 
It a dishonor in attempting to make for her a prisoner of this man, to whom she 
owes so much misery. If success attends me, I go penniless to her side. Thoy 
say she has found that " last ditch" which the North have so long derided, ami 
been endeavoring to force her in, forgetting they are our brothers, and it la 
jnpohtic to goad an enemy to madness. Shotild I reach her in safety and iind 
It true, 1 will proudly beg permission to triumph or die in that same " ditch" by 
her jidfc. 

A. Co>yfederaie, doing duty on his. own responsibility. 

J. Wilkes Bootu. 
The Murderer Seen. 

Sergeant \ M. Dye, Battery C, Pennsylvania Independent Artillery, stationed 
at Camp Borry, near "Washington, in a private letter of the 1.5th instant, to his 
father, J. S. Dys, No. 100 Broadway, New York, gives the following account of 
the conduct of B^oth, immediately before the assassination. 

Washington, D. C, April 1.5, 1865. 

Dear Father :— With sorrow I pen these lines. The death of President Lin- 
coln has deeply affect*, j me. And why shouldn't it, when I might have saved his 
prectous li/e ? 

I was standing in froni .>! the theatre when the two assassins were convei«:ing. 
I heard part of their convt.-gatiun. It was not sufficiently plain for an outsider 
to vinderstand the true meam.ig of it : yet it apprised Sergeant Cooper and my- 
self that they were anxious that the President should come out to his carriage, 
which was standing just behind us. The second act would soon end, and th'ey 
expected he would come out then. I stood awhile between them and the car- 
»iage, with my revolver ready, for I began to suspect them. The act ended, bat 



THE ASSASSIN'ATIOX OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN. 93 

the Frcsident did not appear; so Booth wont into a cestaurant and took a drink, 
then came ont and went into an ailey where his horse was tlien standing; ihougk 
] (lid^i^t know that any liur.se was (here, irle came back and wliispered to tJio 
olher rascal, then stepped into the theatre. There were at this time two police 
ofiicers standing by tiiem. L was invited by my friend C. to have some oysters, 
and we went mto a saU)on around the curner, and had just got seated when a man 
came running in and saii the President was shot I '("his so startled us that we 
could hardly realize it, but we stepped out and were convinced. 

Yours, J. M. Dyk. 

In addition to the foregoing mass of evidence, convicting Booth beyond all pos- 
sihiliry of doubt of the rnpnstrous crune associated with his name, had we space, 
we could support it with an nbund;,uce more of equal strength. The assassin will 
bs remembered to have dropped his hat. pistol, and spur in his passage from the 
bloody box to the stage and across it behind the scenes. The hat and pistol have 
both been identified' as belonging to Booth, also the vagrant spur. This last 
article was identified by the livery stable man, from whom he obtained it with the 
horse on the night of the murder. The circtnnslance, too, about leaving the 
stable with the horse just before the murder, points to him with irresistible siga> 
fi canoe. 

The Assassin's Weapons. 

The murderer's pistol is a Derringer, the barrel about three inches long. In 
the stock of the pistol were three caps. The pistol is an old-fashioned one, silver 
mounted, and of French manufactiu-e. A large knife was foimd on F street be- 
tween Eighth and Ninth, 'i'he blade of the knife is about seven inches long, and 
it is a very dangerous looking weapon. It is thought this is the knife which lie 
lield in his hand when he jumped from the box, and with which he intended to 
huve murdered General Grant. 

Booth's Boom. 

This fiend is said to have a room at the National Hotel, AVashington, at the 
time of his diabolical crime, known as the room numbered 228. With the excep- 
tion that letters and several other articles necessary to the conviction of the 
assassin have been taken from the room, it remains undisturbed. The room is on 
the fourth story of the hotel, a]id has a bare and desolate look. On the bureau, 
in a brown paper, lies half a p.ound of Killikinick tobacco, a clothes brush, a 
broken comb, and a pair of embroidered slippers. Scattered among the drawers 
were one shirt, two pair of drawers, .«.everal pairs of stockings, a half bottle of hair 
oil. and an old programme of the Oxford Concert Room. On the table lay several 
sheets of note paper, with a number of the hotel envelopes. A pair of black 
ca.ssimer& pautaloons, marked J. Wilkes Booth on the fob pocket, was the only 
article of clothing remaining. His trunk, which was locked, was marked with hia 
name, and the word "theatre" following the erasure of the name between the two. 
A large black leather valise sat on the floor near the trunk, and near it a pair of 
hoots impoiished. The general aspect of things in the apartment was one of 
liusty exit. The articles mentioned are the only ones in the room. 

Attempted Assassination of Secretary Seward. 
The murderer directly instrumental in seeking the death of Mr. Seward, by 
plunging a knife at his throat, is a little more involved, as to personal identity, 
than the assassin of Mr. Lincoln, but he unquestionably was a member of the 
Bume fiendish conspiracy. Several arrests have been made of a-icomplices, while 
the principal villain himself is believed to be identified beyond scarcely the 
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noise, fie had started for the Secretary's room, and was met on the staiiway by 
the assassin, and was wonnded and thrust to one side. '^ 

Mr. Robinson remained with Mr. Seward until next morning at eleven o'clock, 
when lie was removed to Donglas Hospital. Every attention is being paid to thia 
brave man by the surgeons of this institution, and his condition is very favorable. 

A Coat Found. 

Soon after the assassination, a gray coat, stained with blood, and which had 
evidently been worn as an overcoat, was found near Fort Bunker Hill, just back 
of Glenwood Cemetery. In the pocket was a false Smoustache, a pair of riding 
gloves, and a slip of paper, upon which was written " Mary E. Gardiner, 419." 
This is supposed to have been worn by the man who attacked Secretary Seward, 
although the weight of the evidence indicates that all tl^ conspirators took the 
same route, that of the Navy Yard bridge. 

The Surratt Family. 

Suspicion having been directed towards a house occupied by members of the 
Surratt family, on H street, near Sixth, Major Smith, of General Augur's staff, 
accompanied by a captain and a gentleman connected with the War Department 
named Morgan, on ^Monday night of last week visited the premises, and placing 
the lady inmates under arrest, proceeded to the examination of the house and 
paj-'Crs found in it. 

While doing so a rap was heard at the door, aboiit 3 o'clock on Tuesday 
morning, which was opened by Mr. Tttorgan, revealing a medium-sized man, and 
apparently in coarse clothes, covered with mud, and having a pickaxe on his 
shoulder, black cloth pantaloons and fine boots. '^ 

Upon discovering the officers he manifested considerable surprise, and remarked 
tliat he had got in the wrong house. In reply to the questions of Major Smith, 
he gave contradictory answers, some of which were quite absurd. 

The man claimed to earn a living bj: the use of his pick, but on removing the 
niud from his person he turned out to be of much more genteel appearance than 
his disguise indicated. He stood forth dressed in a gray coat and vest, black 
cloth pantaloons and fine boots; and the delicate appearance of his hands and 
his inconsistent statements, convinced the officers that he had some connection 
with the attempt to assassinate Mr. Seward, and he was at once taken to General 
Augur's lioad-quarters. 

Upon reaching head-quarters he was placed in the midst of a group of persons, 
while an officer was despatched to the residence of Secretary Seward for the 
colored servant who was at the door at the time the assassin applied for 
admission. The servant had no knov.'ledge of the arrest of the prisoner as the 
object in sending for him. 

Character of Surratt. 

This individual at first supposed to have been the ruffian who attempted tha 
life of Secretary Seward, is described as having been for many years a desperado 
of the worst character. Not long since a suit was brought against him by a 
young lady residing across Eastern Branch, for seduction, and so desperate was 
his character that for some time the officers were afraid to serve the writ ; but 
one of Ihem by laying in ambush succeeded in taking him. 

Surratt, it is now thought, was not a direct actor in the assassination, but seeios 
to have been in some way accessory. 



THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN. 97 

Rewards for the Capture of the Assassins. 

The Secretary of War, over his own official signature, has offered * reward of 
$.")0,000 I'or the arrest of the murderer of Mr. Lincoln. $10,000 had been before 
offered by General Augur for the arrest of the same villain, making .$G0.000 by 
the government for this capture alone. Besides, the corporation of Washington 
has offered $20,000 for the same capture, the city of Baltimore $10,000 more, tlie 
city of Philadelphia $10,000 more, and Governor Curtin has offered an additional 
$10,000, if the assassin is caught within the limits of Pennsylvania. Here is a 
lumdred and ten thousand dollars for the capture of this single wretch. In ad- 
dition, the Secretary of War has offered a reward of $2.o,000 each for the arrest 
of Atzeroth and Harold, suspected accomplices in the Booth conspiracy. The 
Secretary further promises liberal rewards for all valuable information tending to 
ferret out the villains, and threatens with summary and condign punishment ail 
who are found secreting and in any way aiding or abetting the escape of the 
scoundrels. 

Arrest of an Accomplice. 

J. D. Reamer, a prominent merchant of Hagerstown, Md., was arrested in that 
place on Tuesday of last week, and lodged in the Old Capitol, charged as con 
spirator in the mui;der of Mr. Lincoln. Reamer, in a private conversation some 
ti:ue since, had foretold the exact day of the President's death, which has since 
proved true to the letter. 

Capture of the Murderous Conspirator G. A. Atzeroth. 

G., Andrews Atzeroth, a prominent actor in the great assassination, war. 
arrested on the l'.)th instant, at the house of his cousin, near Germantown, Mi 
His arrest was made by troops under General E. B. Tyler, stationed at Monocacy 
Junction. 

On the evening of the 18th instant, a party of scouts of the First Delaware 
Cavalry," Captain, To wnsend, returned to camp from a scout, and reported that a 
suspitiou^^chriracter had been seen in the neighborhood of Germantown, a small 
village about twenty miles toward Washington from here, and from what they 
could learn J^e answered the description of one of the suspicious characters con- 
cerned in tife assassination of the President and Secretary of State. 

Captain ^wnsend, commanding the Independant Scouts, immediately set to 
work, and Sergeant Zachariah W. Gemmill, of Company D (Cajitain 'I'ownsend's), 
First Delaware Cavalry, and six men, were ordered to ])roceed to the house where 
it was understood Atzerotli was staying, and arrest him and such other men as 
might be found on the premises. The scouts under command of Sergeant Gem- 
mell left camp about two o'clock on the morning of the 19th, and marched to 
Germantown. Upon arriving at the house of Reichter, the cousin of the accused, 
abovit half-past three o'clock in the morning, the sergeant disposed of his men 
nbdut the premises to prevent all chances of escape, and in company with some 
cf his mnn, laiocked at the door for admittance. After some hesitation on the 
inmates, the door was cautiously opened, and the sergeant pushed his wan into 
the room, where he found llnichter's family in bed upon the floor, and the room 
presenting a very confused appearance. lie stated his business to Relcliter, and 
asked liim and his wife if there was such a man as Atzeroth in the house. At 
ilrst they denied that there was, but upon the sergeant informing them that lie 
was going to search the house, they informed him that a cousin from the lowei 
part of Maryland was up-stairs in bed. 



98 THE ASSASSINATION OF PIIESIDEXT LINCOLN. 

Sergeant Gemmill immecliatcly ascended to one of the rooms above, where he 
found Atzeroth in bed with two young men, all quietly sleeping. ITiey were 
immediately aroused, their clothing thrown on, and taken down-stairs, where the 
Sergeant made s\ire of his man, and made preparation for leaving with his prize. 
Before starting, he entered into conversation with Eeichter and his wife in 
reference to Atzeroth, but their stories were too conflicting, and such a mass of 
p falsehoods, that lie resolved to wait until daylight, and make search for such 
other evidence as would throw light upon the matter. 

Atzeroth's Antecedents. 

Atzeroth is a German by birth, but having come to this country when quite a 
child, he speaks English with as much fluency as a native. He is about five feet 
seven or eight inches high, with a well-knit and compact frame, and about twenty- 
nine years of age. His complexion is dark and swarthy, with black crisp hair 
and moustache ; eyes dark gray, deep set and piercing. His forehead is low, and 
the general contour of his features stamp him as a man of low character, 
who would stoop to any action, no matter l;iow vile, for money. During his 
examination by Lieut. Runkle, he manifested considerable of a " devil-may-care" 
sort of a spirit, and seemed to look upon himself as competent to deal with all 
ordinary circumstances. 

Atzeroth is reported to have said to one of his friends some weeks since, that 
he "was poor now, but in a few weeks he would have plenty of gold." 

An Infamous Admission. 

He found, by qiiestioning several parties whom Atzeroth had visited, that the 
accused had come trom Washington a day or two before, and at the house of one 
of the gentlemen, while eating dinner, had, upon the subject of the assassination 
being broached, abruptly stopped eating, and made use of the following language : 
"If all of them had done their duty. Grant would have been served the same 
way !" After making diligent search for additional evidence in the neighborhood, 
the Sergeant hooked up Reichter's buggy, and bringing both Eeichter and 
Atzeroth with him, returned to camp and reported to Captain Townsend. After 
hearing what the Sergeant had to say, the Captain directed that the prisoners 
should be taken to the head-quarters of Major Arteman, for examination. 

The prisoners were examined separately, and their answers throughout were a 
mass of absurd contradictions. Reichter's house is situated some twelve miles 
from "Washington, in a very secluded and imfrequented spot, surrounded on all 
sides by immense groves of pines, and in the midst of a neighborhood which has 
ever been known to be the hiding-place of guerillas and others v/ho wished 
to commit depredations upon the surrounding country. The inhabitants of the 
country are, as a class, generally known to be disloyal, and since the arr«-st 
of Atzeroth, have been very reticent, almost refusing to answer any questions 
that may be put to them in reference to the matter of his conduct while with 
them. 

After the examination the prisoners were manacled, and with a guard under 
Sergeant Gemmill, were sent to the railroad station to be forwarded to the head- 
quarters of Gen. E. B. Tyler. "While here, some five or six detective officers who 
liad been searching for him, came up ;\nd fully identified the acciised to be the 
|arty they were in search of. 



THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN. 101 



ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF MR. SEWARD. 

A.RREST OF THE VILLAIN WHO DID THE BLOODY WORK. 



TXiB DEtEOOOlSriTIOlSr. 



CAPTURE MADE AT THE HOUSE OF SURRATT. 

WONDERFUL DISGUISES OF THE CULPRIT. 

His Behavior after Arrest. 

Washington, April 18. — The demoniacal wretch who attempted the life of Mr. 
Seward and his son Frederick, was captured this morning at 3 o'clock, by detec- 
tives wlio were watching a house occupied by Surratt. 

He was disguised as a laborer. His clothes were covered with mud, and he 
carried a pickaxe on his shoulder, and was without a hat. 

When he was arrested, and upon washing the mud from him, he proved quite a 
different looking person from which his appearance at first had indicated. 

At first the assassin refused to give any name whatever. He then gave three 
difTerent ones, all of which are fictitious. 

He was taken to Mr. Seward's house, and placed in a room with two other 
strangers, when Mr. Seward's servant boy was brought into the room and the 
question asked of him — " If the man who assaulted Mr. Seward last Friday night 
was in the room?" 

With a sh.uddcr he instantly pointed to the party just arrived, and said — " That 
is the man." He was also identified instantly by other witnesses of the tragedy, 
who were brought into the room separately. 

Not tlie slightest doubt is entertained by the officers that the person arrested 
is the assassin who would have murdered a sick man in his bed, and have 
slauffhtored his whole family in carrying out his fell design. 

The bloody miscreant has been imprisoned in a perfectly safe place. One of 
the names given by the assassin was Payne. 

Another Account. 

Washington, April 18. — Late last night a man disguised as a laborer, and 
carryhig a pick on his shoulder, approached the house occupied by the family 
of Surratt, in this city, and was about to enter, when he was arrested, and upon 
washing the dirt from his face he proved to be a different lookihg person from 
what his appearance at first indicated. 

He called himself Paine, and exhibited not a little embarrassment. He 
managed to ask, in an agitated tone, why he was arrested. 

The colored servant of Secretary Seward was sent for, when he immediately 
exclaimed : — "' That's the man ! I know him by his general appearance and his 
mouth." 

The servant said there could be no mistake. Others in Secretary Seward's 
house. at the time, who probably have a recollection of his appearance, wiU be 
afforded an opportunity to-day of recognizing him. 

He is believed to be Surratt, who perpetrated the dreadful act at Secretary 
Sevr'ard's house on Friday. 

Tbp following is a detailed account of the circumstances under which the maa 
supposed to be Surratt was arrested : 

For several days past it had been noticed that a number of suspicious persons 
were in the habit of going into a certain house in the very heart of the city of 
AVasJ'.ington, and changing their clothes. Last evening information was received 
abori ten o'clock, by the mihtary authorities, that the house was occupied by 
Mrs. Surratt, the mother of John H. Surratt, implicated as an accomplice in tho 
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102 THE iJSASSINATlON OF PEESIDENT LINCOLN. 

recent terrible tragedies, and that the occupants of the house could farnwh 
valuable information in regard to the parties charged with comphcity m th« 
murder of the President. Colonel Wells, Provost Marshal, ordered the arrest of 
these parties. Major H. W. Smith, of General Augur's staff, and baptam Wer- 
merski^rch, assistant of Colonel Olcott, special commissioner of the War Depart- 
ment, were charged with the execution of this duty Ihese officers reached th« 
house about hal^past ten o'clock, and arrested Mrs M. E. Surratt and Miss Anna 
Surratt, mother and sister of John H. Surratt and Miss Honora Fitzpatrick and 
a Miss Holahan. Soon afterwards Mr. R. C. Morgan, assistant of Colonel Olcott, 
arrived; and proceeded to search the house examine P^P^^^, etc. Abundant 
evidences were discovered of the deep sympathy of the occupants with the rebd 
cause and also of their intimacy and very recent commimicatiou with J. WUk^ 
Booth the murderer. The ladias arrested were each examined separately and 
subsequently sent in charge of officers Rosh and Devoe to General Augur s head- 
quarters for^further examination. The information obamed from them wa^ so 
unsatisfactory and contradictory that the four ^\'ere finally sent to the Old Capitol 
prison until they are ready to testify more clearly and consistently. 
^ Just as the ladies were preparing to leave the house there was a I'g^t knock 
at the front door. It was opened by Major Morgan, Major Smith and Captain 
Wermerskirch standing by. with their pistols ready to be used if ^^ecessary. At 
the door was a young looking man, about five feet eleven mches m statue, light 
cSLpkxion, with pecuharly large gray eyes, and hair that had evidently been 
dved He wore a ?ray cassimere coat and vest, fine black cloth pantaloons, and 
fine boots. His boots and pantaloons were covered with mud almost to the 
knees and his whole appearance was that of one who had been lymg out m he 
rSn He had a pickali on his shoulder. When the door was opened the visitor 
exclaimed, " I believe I am mistaken^ and turned to go away, fee was asked by 
Mr Morgan who he wanted to see. He answered, " Mrs. Surratt. Mr. Morgan 
ea'd ■' Mrs fe^irratt lives here ; she is at home ; walk in." He then came m and 
was 'ushered into the parlor, while the ladies imder arrest were passed out of the 
WeTrom a back roJm where they had been assembled. After being seated '^ 
S^e parlor, the man with the pickaxe was closely interrogated as to his busmess 
tiere at that time of night, twenty minutes after eleven, 1^^\°/^"P ivMrs ' SiJi 
reply he stated that he was a laboring man, and had been sent for by Mrs. bui- 
raU to dig a gutter, and had called to know what time next mormng she wished 
him to come to work; that he had for some time past been employed on the Bal- 
timo e and^Ohio Raihoad as a laborer, that he was atwork on the road on Friday 
S and Ipt that night with the other road hands ; that he had no money, and 
earned h living w!th his pickaxe. He confusedly attempted to tell where ha 
had slept on Smday night, Ld where he had been since Saturday mormng ; but 
often contradk-tedlLself and broke down completely in this P^^^f his narrative. 
I During the investigation he produced a certificate of the oath of allegiance pur- 
Lrtin? to have been taken by Lewis Paine, of Fauquier county, Virginia and 
cHimed hat t^ilt wa^ his name^ but when questioned about it evidently did not 
kuow any Sing about the date of the certificate. He asserted frequently that he 
w^ a polr mS, and could neither read nor write, and earned his living by his 
da^v labor -^it his language was that of a man of education and his leet and 
hands were' ,ml\\ and wdl Ihaped, the latter being delicate, white and soft as a 
woman's and unstained with any mark of toil. lie wore on his head a sort of 
ScS kuuiap ^'liich on examination was found to have been made by cutting 
off h :tm of 'a'stockinet shirt, or the leg of drawers of the same "-t-ial the 
tf n of the can bein"- formed by tying a string around one of the ends Upon 
seal diino^his pocket°s they were found to contain a comb, hair and tooth brushes 
a pot of pomatum, a package of pistol cartridges, a new pocket-compass, and 
?wraty-five ddlars in greenbacks. After the preliminary examination he wi^ 
irim in charge of officers Sampson and Devoe, to Genera Augur's head-quarters 
wh're upoX?her examination, he gave an account of himself quite differen 
J-om the one previously given. It was evident that he was m disguise, and had 

strangers, llie light was made. dim. as nearly as possible, m imitation of the con 



THE ASSASSINATION" OF PRESIDENT LDfCOLS". lc« 

rf th- '"^t m Mr.S«w^"s r-rr:^ ~r. th*t eventful mght »nd the domestic* 

w^re sen; for. U .r the room the" porter, a colored boy 

n year* of air*' thr .'.aads with an esolamation of horn>r. 

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»od it is . ..:it he. too, will be in ca5T-:hr '-.f.-re morning, several other 

parties are i..t u- at, who have -tained to be acoomDiice* 

before the fact in : racedy. The . oas already made reveal a 

plot we.l laii and lor.- _:... varefully maTurei :\.r ::-a.-der and arsun, on a scale so 
frandly diabolical as to be hardly conceivable. 



ASSASSINS 



and the Grreat Ones of the World who have fallen by their Hands. 

Illustrioas acuons can - • -- ^nrely entrusted to the universal remembrance 
of mankmd: but great c: take their place in meraorv. and in history. 

concentrating, as it were. .y of a whole country in <'^-'n.r^,-,_ 

In the miikt of happiness, m a time tvhen our national he : med. when 

power and peace were brought togiJther, when we had pr. vn our old 

a*ff to the breeze, and joyous throngs met in the streets, brousht to«^ther by 
<«ir nniversaJ love of country, with hearts full of joy and graiitnde to° one who 
"^ so meekly. shriiJiing even from expressions' of gratitude for his 
' - - - -ot.c services, tiie pistol of an assassin rouses " tlirough the corri- 

aers u-i ijzii :.. es of those victims and their assassins of whom history 

has preserved - rds. 

Assassin did i.. . . .___j.'ly mean any one who committed a crime, bnt the mem- 
ber of a distinct order, meaning a secret sect of the h-hmaeiites founded by Hassan 
Uomairi. who. m their technical puraso. was called the Man of the MouMtlin. 
This secret society had the preteniion to imitate the Christian order of Kiii-ii:- 
hood. Probably such also is the pretension of the Knights of the Grolden Clrcie ; 
at any rate their missions were alike, for this association spread terror around it 
by the hideous and unlooked-for crimes it perpetrated. 

All the members vowed implicit obedience to their chief, committine even self-de- 
struction at his command.. But before these commands were siven. it was the 
custom of the chiefs to throw the exe-cutionera of dark deeds into a state of deli- 
rium by the intoxicating influence of hemn. or hashish, just as Booth drank 
brandy before perpetrating the dee 1 ' • overshadows the land. 

The members, from the custom of . =li:ch. came to be called Hashishhn, 

or Hemp-eaters, which being transi^icu .... corrupted became in European lan- 
gTiages ASSASsrv. assassixo, and so forth. In all times and ages men have been 
tempted to crime on the gc-od and great. 

Constaatine VI. 
Irene, Empress consort of Greece, was an ambitious woman, bv birth a Roman. 

By the death of her husband she lost her power, which was of course, vested in 
hij successor and son.. Constantine VI. After a long minority, the Empress 
fin^ling thatafl authority would now escape her forever ."caused her sjn's eyes to 
be put out, and then afterwards had him stranded (a favorite way of taizing life 
in those days). Irene reigned herself prosperously, though at last offending the 
coortiers around her, she was deposed, and finally died in eiiie. 



10-i THE ASSAS3IXATI0X OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN". 

William Eufus. 
"\Villi.mi Rufus. the nii'vortliy son ot' William the Conqueror, who had been « 
freat man, knowing how to conciliate the conquered, was a preat hunter. In 
order to indulge his favorite pastime, he confiscated all the l-xnds that obstructed 
his pro-fc-jt of forming a vast furi'st in which the game could accumul;tte. 

Sir AV'alter 'I'yrrel, one of tlio.-^e wlio had suSered by this fancy of the king, 
watcliing his opportunity, shot him with an arrow, and escaped immediately to 
France. William Rufus lies buried in Winchester Catliedral, and the new forest, 
'(.till retaining its name, is one of the most lovely spots in Hampshire. 

Cola di Rienzi. 

In the days of Clement VI.. Di Rienzi. the .«on of a tavern-keeper and a washer- 
woman, iinbiicd with an enthusiasm for the great deeds of antiquity, conceived 
the projc -t of re-establishing a Roman Republic. This wonderful resolution frund 
follower? sufficient to become successful, and Rienzi was elected to the head of 
the Government, under the title of Tribune. 

Great was the enthusiasm created by this return to the classical age. Petrarch 
was one of its great admirers and supporters. But popular favor is vain and 
unstable, ^specially in Italy, and a sedition was excited ag-ainst him. The mob 
that had ace cheered him, now executed him, and he was kille'd by an infuriated 
follower ct' tlxe people, and his body afterwards pierced in their wild fury wit! i 
inniunerable wounds. 

Massaniello. 

The people of Naples had long suffered imder the oppression of tl^e Spanish 
Viceroys. The people 'vere ready for revolt, when au glTray in market, caused 
by an insult offered by the Spanish authorities to the wife "of Tomaso Aniello, 
commonly called Massaniello, gave the signal for revolt, ^assaniello was a man 
of couiago and native genius. He guided the people with judjrment and tact, and 
succeeded in obtaining all he demanded of the Spanish ruler. He was invested 
with supreme power. Then, all being accomplished, the wily viceroy set to work 
to destroy the man whom liis fears had exalted. In a banquet to which he in- 
vited the voung liberator of Naples, he administered a drug wliich. acting en hia 
brain, mc le him commit acts of madness which lost him the affection oflhe peo- 
ple. A conspiracy was the consequence, and in an insurrection Massaniello was 
assassinated by one of ius former companions and friends, Gennaro Annese. 

James I., of Scotland, 
was a man whose mind and genius were far in advance of the country in which he 
hved. He meditated many rational reforms for the ameUoration of the condition 
of the people, and so, of course, ofiended tlie nobility, who decided on getting rid 
of him. 

Surprising him one evening as he sat in the Castle of Perth, in the midst of 
the queen and lier ladies, after a fierce struggle and several escapes, they barbar- 
ously sta'-bed 'him, inflicting nmnerous woimds, and killing him almost in the 
ai-ms of Lis wife. 

The qncen, as well as Ih.e ladies in attendance, all tried to save him. Catharine 
Pouglai one of the maids of honor, on the first alarm, finding that a bolt had 
been removed from a room tlirough which the murderers were heard approaching, 
th:\i>t her arm through the large staples, and so retarded the entrance of the 
assast^^ins, luitil, by their efibrts, her arm was crushed as they burst open the 
doors. 

Eichard Ccbut de Lion, of England. 

TLis chivalrous i>:an. v.hose deeds liave been the theme of poetry and romaLoe, 
after a mc>^t brilliant career, was trea.-herously killed by the Viscount de Limoges, 
in France, whilst parleying with him under the protection of a flag-of-truce. 

Henry IV., of France and Navarre. 

Henry Quatre was one of the most popular monarclis of France. Brave. 
worthy. ju5t. generous and brilliant, his character suited exactly with the jhara--- 
ter of the people he governed. Under his rule they were happy and prosperous, 
yet no less than twenty-eight tiiii:s was his Life attempted. The last atteuipi 
was dusiiacd to be successful. 



THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN. 105 

Tne king had been a Protestant, and was suspected by zealous Catholics of 
enly having joined their Church from policy. This aimed fanaticism in the 
person of Francois Ravaillac, who, watching his opportunity, found means to mor- 
tally wound the king with a dagger as he was returning on his way to visit hia 
friend and counsellor, the Count de Sully. Ravaillac died on the wheel, which 
tore him limb from limb. 

If the building mania of the present emperor has not destroyed it, there is still 
in the Rue de la Fernonese (one of the narrowest and dirtiest in the French cap- 
ital), an inscription on the house in front of which the deed was committed, 
commemorating the crime and the catastrophe. 

Kouli-Khan. 

Kouli-Khan was King of Persia. He had been educated by a European, and 
possessed great intellect and military talent. He meditated the civilization of 
Persia, as well as its aggrandizement. One of his favorite projects was the con- 
qitest of British India, which he accomplished to a certain extent, reaching and 
taking Delhi. 

But his glory and his progressive ideas in government offended the nobles and 
those around him, and in 1747 he was stabbed in his tent by his nephew, whilst 
his body-guard, turning traitors, kept all who would have rescued him from ap- 
proaching. 

Gustavus of Sweden. 

The death of this good and brilliant monarch has, through romance and opera, 
become well known. He was killed at a masked ball by Captain Ankerstroem, 
fonnerly an officer in the army. The liberal principles of the king, and a discon- 
tented and vain disposition, yearning for distinction, impelled this assassination, 
for which the perpetrator, one of a secret conspiracy, was first degraded by being 
fiogge'A and then hanged. 

George III. 

The life of this monarch, whose qualities and defects were alike inoffensive, was 
attempted several times. The nearest attempt to success was by Margaret 
Nicholson. The king Avas getting into his carriage at the garden entrance of St. 
James' palace, when a woman advanced and presented a petition. Whilst the 
king was opening it, she struck at him with a knife. The king warded off the 
blow, and as she was preparing to strike again, one of the yeomen of the guard 
seized the assassin. 

The king, turning to the anxious crowd, exclaimed in a loud voice : — " I am not 
hurt," and thus prevented a popular outburst. The woman, when examined, was 
found to be, or pretended to be insane. She was put into a mad-house for life. 

Paul I., of Bussia. 

Paul had wearied the world by his wild career both at home and abroad ; his 
hatred of England amounted to a monomania. He aimed also at the power of his 
nobles, which in Russia is almost as great as that of the sovereign. 

His death was decided on and executed, not only by his nobles, but his wife and 
children aided in the deed. He was strangled with a silken scarf, after being 
dragged from his bed, by Count Whalem. 

His sons, Constantine and Alexander, were both in the room, and his wife was 
with her son Nicholas in the adjoining chamber, awaiting the completion of the 
crime to which both were privj'. This crime, which sounds like the dark ages, 
was committed as late as the year 1801. Alexander succeeded his father to the 
throne. 

Queen Victoria. 

If ever monarch wa." respected or woman loved by a whole nation, that woman 
iu Victoria, Queen of England. Yet no less than five times has her life been 
attempted. Four of these attempts were, however, by people desiring notoriety, 
who could give no reasonable motive for the deed. Two of the criminals were 
sent to an insane asylum for life, whilst two were transported. 

The fifth attempt on the life of the Queen was as she was driving from Buck- 
ingham Palace, through the park, seated in her usual carriage, an open barouche, 
with four houses, two servants, and two outsiders ; the Queen was conversing with 
Prince Albert, smiling and bowing to all the greetings and salutations she re- 



106 THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN. 

eeived on \ier way, when the Prince was seen to throw himself suddenly in front 
of the Queen, and at the same moment the report of a pistol was heard. 

The ball passed over the head of the Prince. Prince Albert, gazing out at the 
crowd, had suddenly seen the bright barrel of a pistol, on which a ray of the sun 
was shining, and liad understood the purport of the man who held it. 

Without giving any sign of alarm, he hesitated not an instant to sacrifice hia 
own life for that of the Queen, or rather let us think it was the husband who gave 
his life to save that of his wife. The assassin was never taken ; but the Prince 
made great progress in the atibctions of the English people by the spontaneous 
proof of his love and devotion to their beloved Queen. 

Napoleon I. 

In the reign of the great Napoleon, there was, it is said, a special department 
in the office of the secret police dedicated exclusively to discovering plots against 
the life of the Emperor, and it is also said that this department was never idle. 
Three or four plots a day was the common allowance. 

The greatest and the nearest to success was the attempt (a royalist attempt) 
by the infernal machine. This machine was placed in the way Napoleon was to 
take going from the Tuileries to the opera. Every thing, especially the exact 
time of his arrival on the spot, had been calculated— all calculated, in fact, but 
the influence of Josephine on his destiny. 

She it was who saved him. Just as they were about to depart, she took it into 
her little coquettish head that the India shawl she wore was not becoming, and 
sent for another — consequently a delay of over five minutes. Whilst the Empress 
was getting her shawl, the fuses were burning, and the machine exploded three 
minutes before the imperial carriage got to the spot. Many persons were killed, 
but Napoleon was saved, and by Josephine, whom, on his marriage day, he had 
called the "star" of his destiny. 

Napoleon III. ' 

Plots and counterplots are said to occupy the mind of the Minister of Police 
almost as much as iif the time of the first Emperor. The most important attempt 
on Napoleon's life is the one in which Orsiui and Pierri were the conspirators. 
It was one planned in the manner of the infernal machine. 

It exploded as the Emperor approached the opera; many of the projectiles fell 
into his carriage, yet he was not wounded, neither was the Empress ; and Napoleon 
III. was looked upon by the people as bearing a charmed life. 

Orsini and Pierri were Italian patriots, who had belonged to the Carbonari, 
with whom Louis Napoleon had himself, in his early days in Italy, been as- 

When he attained to power the Carbonari exacted his aid in the restoration of 
Italian liberty, which aid he promised. Not fulfilling his promise sufficiently 
promptly, Orsini and Pierri believed him a traitor to their cause— hence their 
vengeance. They were both executed in 1858, and since their death Napoleon, 
at Mao-enta and Solferino, fulfilled his promise to the Carbonari, and has niade 
Italy one of the kingdoms of the earth, under an Italian king— Victor Em- 
manuel. 



ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATIONS IN MODERN TIMES. 

{From the Toronto Leader.) 
A crime so horrible as assassination is held in detestation and abhorrence by 
ewrv civilized people. The savage tribes of America, by whom it is systemati. 
cally practised, resort to it only to avenge the murder of a relative. Unless under 
peculiar circumstances, it carries with it the presumption of cowardice, the excep- 
tions bein- where the horrid deed is done in public, and the perpetrator places 
his own hfe in imminent hazard, cither from the fury of the populace oi those 
more regular steps which lead through a judicial process to a felon s death, ine 
assassin of Mr. Lincoln could hardly hope to escape, though the murderer— in 
intout. if not in fact— of Mr. Seward had more chance in his favor Ihere are not 
wanting, in recent times, plenty of instances of attempt.? being made to assassinate 
royul or other eminent political personages ; but they have almost invariably ma- 



THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN. 107 

carried from one cause or another. The attempts on the life of Napoleon III. are 
fresh ill the public recollection ; bnt though they have been more than once 
repeated, the Emperor of the French still lives. We are many of us nlil enough 
to remember the plot of Fiaschi to murder Louis Phillippe, and to recall tlie days 
when the Duke of Wellington found it necessary to secure his windows wiih thick 
iron shutters. Not all the virtues of our own Queen and the love wliich is borne 
her by her subjects have protected her, at all times, from attempts upon her life. 
In 1840 a madmaii shot at the Queen and the Princess Iloyal ; and at another 
time, a captain of dragoons assaulted her Majesty by horsewhipping her. The 
successful attempt, in recent times, to assassinate a staicsman in the case of Mr. 
Percival, shot by Bellingham in the lobby of the House of Commons, in 1811. 
Belliugham acted from a sense of personal injury. A Russian merchant, he 
attributed his ruin to Percival, and took this means of revenge. At a still later 
date, within about twenty years, an attempt was made on the life of Sir Robert 
Peel, and the ball intended for him struck and killed his private Secretary, Mr. 
Drummond. In 1820 was formed the Cato street conspiracy, with Tliistlewood 
ftt its head, for the purpose of assassinating the whole Britisli Cabinet, at a 
dinner to be given at Lord llarrowby's house, in Grosvenor Square. The 
conspiracy was denouncfd by government spies, and Tliistlewood was e::ocuted 
for the Grime. About twenty years before this time, a madman named Hadfield 
tired from the pit of Drury-Lane Theatie at George III. in his box, and missing 
his aim, was tried fov treason, but not convicted, on accomit of his irresponsible 
condition. He was kept in confinement for safety. 'J'iiis was the second attempt 
on the life of that king. Margaret Nicholson having in 1780, attempted to stab 
his Majesty with a knife as he was alighting from his carriage near St. James' 
Palace. The woman was treated as a maniac, and confined in Bethlehem 
Hospital. All these attempts to assassinate royal and distinguished p.liticai 
personages taken together, were not attended with as much success as the two 
which were made simultaneously at Washington last Friday night. The success 
of these attempts is more unusual than the acts themselves. And the reasons 
for that success are i)lain. An English King may be fired at, as we have seen, 
from the pit of a tlieatre, or an Emperor of the Frcnclwmay encounter an 
attempt at assassination the moment he passes out of the opera into his 
carriage ; bat at Washington an assassin can get imnndiately behind the Chief 
Magistrate in his box at the theatre, and make sure of his murderous purpose. 
Percival was shot in the lobby of the House of Commons, and Sir Robert Peel 
was shot at in the street; but at W;;s]iington tlie assassin, with a clum-y he in 
his mouth, finds ready admission to the sick chamber of a feeble and cm;K:iated 
minister of State, and strikes blows which he intended to be mortal. This 
Btrange facility of access to great political personages having proved fatal, may 
cause the notions of primitive simplicity which were thought to comport with 
the character of that Republic, to be revised, and it may hencefortli be found 
necessary to surrotmd tlie President of the United States with that protection 
which is accorded to Kings and Emperors in ICurope. In this way the manners 
of the Republican court of Washington may undergo a change. Whatever may 
have been the motive for the assassination of President Lincohi and the aitempt 
on the life of Secretary Seward, they can Init inspire horror in all right-iirnded 
persons everywhere. So far as the cause of the South is identified with these 
acts, it will suffer in the estimation of the world. There is nothing to be ^.-aikcd 
to any cause by so horrible a crime as assassination, and much to be lost. One 
of the effects will be, in this case, to exasperate the North against the South, 
and to cause it to insist on much harder conditions, when tlie question of fjiial 
reconciliation comes to be discussed, than it otherwise would have done. There 
were two parties in the North ; on;' in favor of mild measures, such as for going 
the right of confiscating the property of men who had l)een in arms against the 
Washington Government; the other insis*ing on the hanging of JeQerson Davis 
■whenever he should be caught, and similar measures of extreme severity. The 
"malignants," as Ihey were not inaptly called, were likely to have been gr^'atly in 
the minority; but the temper of tlie North will be exasperated by the assa.-sina- 
ticn of their President and the murderous attack upon Secretary ScM'ard. and 
mild and merciful councils will be liUely to be forgotten in the bad feeling that 
will once more become predominant. Outside the United States, these assa-sina- 
tiona will injure the cause of the South in the estimation of the world, prcciaely 



108 THE ASSASSINATION" OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN'. 

in tlic proportion that Southerners may be found to have been in the plot or to 
jiave approved of the crime after its perpetration. That the deatli of Mr 
Ijincoln will alter the war policy of the Nortliern States cannot he supposed 
He was but a representative man ; and the large vote he recorded on his re- 
election shows how much more fully he came up to the Northern standard than 
General McClellan. The assassins liave not learned the great lesson that 
individuals, in great emergencies, count for very little ; that it is the general bent 
of the national mind, and not the will or the power of an individual, that, 
controls the policy of the nation, in circumstances similar to those of the Unitec? 
ytates. The policy of tlie North, be it right or wrong, will not die with President 
Lincoln. 



BOOTH, THE ASSASSIN, 

HE IS TRACED TO HIS HIDING-PLACE— HE REFUSES TO SUR- 
RENDER HIMSELF. 



THE CAPTURE CP HAROLD. 



BOOTH SHOWS FIGHT— THE BARN SET ON FIRE. 



Death of the Murderer of Lincoln ! 



eOW BOOTH WAS DISCOVERED— LOYAL NEGROES GUIDE HIS 
PURSUERS— HIS BODY AT AVASHINGTON. 



Full Particulars of the Pursuit and Capture. 

OFFICIAL GAZETTE. 

Washington, April 27 — 9-30, A.M. — Major-General Dix, New-York : J. Wilkes 
Booth and Harold were chased from the swamp in St. Mary's county, Maryland, 
to Garrett's farm, near Port Royal, on the Rappahannock, by Colonel Baker's 
force. 

The rear of the barn in which they took refuge was fired. Booth, in making 
liis escape, was shot through the head and killed, lingering about three hours, and 
Harold was captured. Booth's body, and Harold, are now here. 

(Signed) Edwin M. Stantox, 

Secretary of War. 

[Port Royal, Virginia, near which Booth and Harold were taken, is on the 
south side of the Rappahannock, about twenty miles l)elow Fredericksburg. The 
belief heretofore entertained, that Booth, after committing his crime, took refuge 
in the southern counties of ilaryland, with a view to crossing the Potomac into 
Yn-ginia, is confirmed.] 



THE PURSUIT AND DEATH OF BOOTH. 

Washington, April 27. — Booth, after assassinating President Lincoln and 
making a tragic exit from the stage of the theatre, mounted his horse and rode 
off, accompanied by an accomplice, named Harold, a ym;ng Marylandcr. To 
avoid suspicion, they separated, meeting at a place called Marlboro. 

Booth, in jumping from the box, had fractured one of the small boned of hia 
left leg, just above the an'.Je, and the limb had swollen during the ride, causing^ 
much pain. Harold took him to the house of a Dr. Mudge, where the boot was 
cut ofl" and the limb bandaged. 

The two fugitives remained some days in Maryland, and Hanm states that 



110 THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN 

for which thej'^ paid three hundred dollars, and were met on the Yirginia shore by 
two Confederate officers with a two-horse wagon. Booth wore a grey suit without 
any military insi^'nia of rank. 

At Port Eoyal the detectives learned that one of the Confederate officers had 
a sweetheart at Bowling Green, and had probably gone there. So the party 
started in pursuit, passing on their way a farm Avhere resided two brothers named 
William and John Garrett, >vho have been in the Rebel army, their house being 
about a quarter of a mile from the road. 

After having gone about three miles from the Garretts' house, the party met a 
loyal Yirginan, of dark skin, of course, and from him learned that liooth and 
Harold were at the Garretts'. '* Right about !" was the word, and about three 
o'clock in the morning the pursuers arrived there. 

Statement of the Garretts. 

Here let us state what the Garretts say about their visitors who came to their 
house on Friday or Saturday of last week. 

The fugitives were brought in a wagon by two Confederate officers, who spoke 
of Booth as a wounded Marylander on his way home, and that they wished to 
leave him there a short time, and would take him away by the 'ZGth. 

Booth limped somewhat, and walked on crutches about the place, complaining 
of his ankle. He and Harold regularly took their meals at the house, and Booth 
kept up appearances well. 

One day at the dinner table, the conversation turned on the assassination of 
the President, when Booth denounced the assassination in the severest terms, 
sapng that there was no puuishmcnt severe enough fur the perpetrator. At 
another time some one said in Booth's presence, that rewards amoimting to 
$200,000, had been oflered for Booth, and that he would like to catch him, when 
Booth replied, "Yes, it would be a good haul, but the amount would doubtless 
soon be hicrcased to $.500,000." 

After our cavalry passed towards Bowling Green, Booth and Harold applied to 
one of the Garretts for two horses, that they might ride to Louisa Court House, 
but he fearing that the horses would not be returned, refused to let them go.. 
Some words of recrimination passed between Booth and Harold, and the (jlarretts 
becoming suspicious that all was not right, urged them to leave. This they 
refused to do unless they could be supplied with horses ; and the Garretts then 
said that if they remained, they must sleep in the barn. One of the Garretts 
went to sleep in the corn crib, fearing as he says, that thb strangers would steal 
their hones 

Preparations for the Capture. 

On returning to the Garretts' hoiise. Lieutenant Baker halted his force, and 
going ir., obtained a reluctant confession from the brother there, where the 
criminals were. Going out again. Lieutenant Baker aroused his escort, who had 
nearly all gone to sleep, and took them to the barn, around which he stationed 
them. He then advanced to the door, and knocking with the butt of his 
revolver, said, " Booth, we want you." '" Here I am," replied the assassin, " who 
are you, Confederate or Yankee?" Lieutenant Baker informed him who he was, 
and summoned him to surrender, but met with a defiant refusal. 

Qtiite a parley ensued, Harold at one time expressing a desire to surrender, 
which Booth rebuked, denouncing him as a coward. Booth could see the party 
outside, through the cracks of th'e barn, but they could not see him. He swore 
that he would never be taken alive, and declared that he could kill at least five 
men, and then kill himself, sli<n\ld they atteinpt to break into the barn. 

The Barn Fired. 

At last. Lieutenant Baker, fearing that the guerillas and the paroled Rebel 
soldiers, with whom the country swarmed, would come to the rescue, posted the 
cavalrymen around the barn, and going to one end of it, which was filled with hay, 
pulled"some through a crack and lighted it. 'J'he flames ran up the crack to the 
top of the hay-mow, over which they spread. The inside of the burn was no\> 
ligbted u]\ 

When Booth first saw the fire he clambered up on the mow, and vainly 
attem])ted to extinguish it. He then returned to his position on tl.e floor, be- 
tween the two doors, with his back against the hay-mow, a revoVer in each hand, 
and a Spencer carbine between his legs. 



THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN. Ill 

Harold Surrenders. 
Meanwhile, the soldiers had approached the barn, and Harold, dropping hia 
pistol, gave himself up, receiving Booth's malediction as he left the burning barn. 

Death of Booth. 

Just afterwards the roof over the liay-mow began to crack as if it was falling 
in, and Booth made a movement. 8ome of those who were watching him pay 
that he was about to kill himself, while others declare that he was intending to 
break out and escape. Be this as it may. Sergeant Corbett had a sight at him 
through a wide crack with his cavalry sis-shooter, and pulled trigger. The ball 
entered about where the President was shot, but passed entirely through Booth's 
head. The murder has been avenged. " It's all up now," shrieked Booth. " I'm 
g«ne," and he staggered towards the door of the barn. Lieutenant Baker re- 
ceived him, and taking him from the blazing barn, laid him on the ground, then 
Bat down and took his head in his lap. 

Booth did not deny his crime, and showed no signs of repentance or of 
liumanity. except to ask Lieutenant Dougherty to give a message to his mother. 
His death was not easy, but at three minutes after seven his spirit passed away 
into the presence of an avenging God. 

Return of the Escort. 
Nothing remained for the party to do but to regain their steamboat at Belle 
Plain. 

How Harold was taught to Walk. 
They had to bring Booth's body in a cart, and at Orst Harold had to walk, to 
■which he, as a Maryland gentleman, objected, but after a rope was placed around 
his neck with a slip noose, and the other end was fastened to a cavalryman's sad- 
dle, lie started off, taking good care that the rope should not tighten. 

The Remains of Booth. 

From Belle Plain Lieutenant-Colonel Conger, rode overland to Alexandria, and 
reported to Colonel Baker yesterday afternoon, at half-past five. 

When he left there were some hopes that Booth's wound was not mortal. 

Colonel Baker went to Alexandria to meet the steamer, and since then tha 
body of Booth, by direction of the Secretary of War, has remained in his custody. 

Surgeon-General Barnes, with an assistant, made an autopsy on the remains 
this afternoon. Tlieir final disposition is unknown to the public as yet. 

Such are the leading events of the escape, pursuit, and arrest of the assassin of 
President Lincoln, obtained from unquestionable resources. 

Of coiirse, every member of the expedition, civil or military, regards himself as 
the principal agent, and some wonderful stories are told; but what I have stated 
may be relied upon as corre:;t. 

This is, however, but the second act in the great conspiracy, the first act of 
■which cost us our President. Other arrests have been made. 

Other arrests are to be made, and in due time the public will learn the extent 
and the deliberate wickedness of the whole crime. They will also see that much 
of what has been published about arrests of the party who attacked Secretary 
Seward and other matters are bosh. Colonel Baker has detected the criminal, 
and the Secretary of War, who knows the facts better than any one else, gives him 
the credit. 

Appearance of the Body. 

Booth's moustache had been cut off apparently with scissors, and his beard 
allowed to grow, changing his appearance considerably. His hair had been cut 
fiomowhat shorter than he usually wore it. 

Booth's body, which we have 1)efore described, was at once laid oulf on a bench, 
and a guard placed over it. The lips of the corpse are tightly compressed, and 
the blood has settled in the lower part of the face and neck. Otherwise the face 
is pale, and wears a wild, haggard look, indicating exposure to the elements, and 
a rough thne gene'-ally in his skulking flight. His hair is disarranged and dirty, 
nnd apparently had not beop combed since he took his flight. The head and 
breast is alone exposed to view, the lower portion of his body, including the 
hands and feet, being covered with a tarpaulin tluH)wn over it. The shot, which 
terminated his accursed life, entered on the left side at the bi'.ck of the neck, a 



112 THE ASSASSINATION- OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN. 

a point, curiously enough, not far distant from that in which his rictim, our 
lamented President, was shot. 

A Spencer carbine, which Booth had with him in the barn at the time he was 
shot by Sergeant Corbett, and a large knife, with blood on it, supposed to be th« 
one which Booth cut Major Eathbun with in the theatre box on the night of ths 
murder of President Lincoln, and which was found on Booth's body, have been 
broug'ht to the city. The carbine and knife are now in the possession of Colonel 
Baker, at his ofQce. 

Booth had upon his person some bills of exchange, but only about $175 in 
Treasury notes. 

The bills of exchange, which are for a considerable amount, found on Booth's 
person, were drawn on banks in Canada in October last. About that time Booth 
was known to have been in Canada. 

It is now thought that Booth's leg was fractured in jumping from the box in 
Ford's Theatre «pon the stage, and not by the falling of his horse while en- 
deavoring to make his escape, as was at first supposed. 

The Captured Assassins. 

The greatest curiosity is manifested to view the body of the murderer Booth, 
which yet remains on the gunboat in the stream off the Navy Yard. Thousands 
of persons visited the yard to-day in hopes of getting a glimpse at the murderer's 
remains, but none were allowed to enter who were not connected with the yard. 
The wildest excitement has existed here all day, and regrets are expressed that 
Booth was not taken aliv«. 

Sergeant Corbett . 

It is said that in pulling the trigger upon Booth, he sent up an audible petition 
for the soul of the criminal. 

'I'he pistol lased by Corbett was the regular large-sized cavalry pistol. He was 
offered a thousand dollars this morning for the weapon with its five undischarged 
loads. 

An Autppsy. 
This afternoon, Surgeon-General Barnes, with an assistant, held an autopsy on 
the body of Booth. 

Booth not in Rebel Uniform. 
It now appears that Booth and Harold had on clothing which was originally 
of some other color than the Confederate gray, but being faded and dusty, pre- 
sented that appearance. 

Booth's Mistress. 

The news of Booth's death reached the ears of his mistress while she was in » 
street car, which caused her to weep bitterly, and drawing a photograph likeness 
of the murderer from her pocket, kissed it fondly several times. 

The Demeanor of Harold. 

Harold, thiis far, has evaded every effort to be drawn into conversation by those 
who have necessarily come in contact with him since his capture, but his outward 
appearance indicates that he begins to realize the position in which he is placed, 
and that there is no escape from the awful doom that certainly awaits him. His 
relations and friends, in this city, are in the greatest distress over the disgrace 
that he has brought upon himself. 

Bowhng Green. 

Bowling Green, near which place Booth was killed, is a post village, the capital 
of CaroUne county, Virginia, on the road from Richmond to Fredericksburg, 
forty-five miles north of the former, and is situated in a fertile and healthy region. 
It contauis two churches, three stores, two mills and about three hundred inhabi- 
tants. 



THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN. 113 

TREATMENT OP TRAITORS. 

MARYLAND. 
Excitement at Westminster, Md. 
On Saturday, on the reception of the intelligence at Westminster, Carroll 
county, Md., of the assassination of President Lincoln, the most intense excite- 
ment ensiled. A meeting of the citizens was called at the Court House at eight 
o'clock P. M., which was presided over by Mr, Shriver, and was the largest and 
most respectable in point of numbers ever held in the town. Great bitterness 
of feeling was expressed against Joseph Shaw, the proprietor of the Westminster 
Democrat, a paper in the interest of the rebellion, on account of remarks made m 
its issue of last week. The editor said, among other things, " Some people hope 
tliat Lincoln's Ufe will be spared now, in order that the country may be saved the 
disgrace of an ' incoherent' Vice-President. But is there not a slight chance of im- 
provement in case that Providence should will it otherwise ?" The article continued 
at length in vituperative language against both the President and Vice-President, 
such as the rebel sympathizers have so frequently indulged in. A proposition 
was made in the meeting to destroy the office of the paper, but more moderate 
counsels prevailed, and the resolution was modified to the effect that bhaw be 
notified that the Democrat would not longer be permitted to be issued in tliat 
town. A resolution was also unanimously adopted, by a rising vote of those 
present, requiring the chairman of the meeting to appoint a vigilance committee 
for Carroll county, whose duty it should be to take such measures as would prevent 
the return of any rebel who had ever borne arms against the Government of the 
United States to that county, no matter whether paroled by Gen. Grant or any 
other authority. Every person who has ever been in the rebel array will be 
forced to take up his residence elsewhere, their presence being considered dan- 
gerous to the peace of the community. At midnight, long after the meeting ad- 
journed, the office of the Democrat was visited, the types, cases, printing paper, 
in fact all the material, were taken to the street and burned, and the press, stove, 
etc.. in the building broken with axes, crowbars, etc. Though the establishment 
was completely gutted, the building itself was unharmed. 

Later— A Disloyal Editor Killed by Citizens. 
Joseph Shaw, editor of the Westminster (Carroll county) Democrat, whose 
paper was mobbed and material destroyed the night after the murder of the 
President, on account of the disloyal sentiments expressed by the editor, and who 
was also warned away by the people, returned yesterday to Westminster. Last 
night he was again waited upon by a delegation of citizens, who knocked at his 
door. He appeared and fired into the crowd, woimding a young man named 
Henry Bell. Upon tliis the enraged citizens killed Shaw on the spot. 

MAINE. 

Arrests for using Offensive Language. 

Two women on the train from Skowhegan, expressed themselves in an offensive 
manner, exulting over the deed of murder. On their arrival in this city, they 
were quietly delivered over to a squad of soldiers sent by Colonel Little, at the 
request of the conductor, and lodged in jail. Several men have been arrested 
here for like hard language, and placed in confinement. One would have fared 
bad at the hands of the soldiers, but for the interposition of the police. 

NEW YORK. 

• Scenes in Poughkeepsie. 

Intense excitement prevailed here in relation to the national disaster. A 
woman named Frisbee exulted in public over the assassination of the President, 
when the house, in Main street, in which she resided, was immediately eurror-nded 
by several hundred infuriated people, who demanded her immediate arrest. A 
young man named Denton interfered with the mob, when he was irnmediately 
ttirottled, and, together with the woman, was handed ©ver to the authorities, who 
lodged them in jail. This being accomplished, the populace quietly dispersed; 
The city is draped in mourning, and the gloom is general. 



114 THK ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN. ' 

A laige crowd of people are passing up Main street, escorting a vrell-known 
rebel syini athizer, whom they are compelling to carry the American llag. Stop- 
ping in front of the Eastm:m College, they compelled him to give three cheers 
for a flag which floated at half-mast over it. No violence was used, but the mob 
seemed determined. 

SARATOGA. 

At Saratoga, Rev. Dr. Beecher expelled from his seminary a young lady punil 
for remarking that the murder of Lincoln made Saturday the happiest day of lier 
life. The Doctor says that no person with such senthnents shall sleep imder his 
roof. 

A workman named Neil was expelled from the arsenal on Saturday, for 
rejoicing. The other employees •• hustled him out." 

MASSACHUSETTS. 
A Railroad Superintendent in Difficulty, 
A scene occurred to-day in our city, evincing the deep feeling of our entirs 
population in the sad affliction. At an early hour in the forenoon, it was 
reported that Otis Wright. Superintendent of the Lowell Horse Railroad, had 
made remarks expressing his gratification at the President's death. The report 
soon spread over the city, and by nine o'clock a large crowd gathered in front of 
the Museum Building (the uffice of the company), demanding that Mr. Wrio-ht 
be given up to them. The Mayor and several policemen" were soon on the 
groimd, using their efforts to keep back the crowd, which was attempting to rush 
up-stairs. Finally the Mayor came out upon the awning and stated Uiat Mr. 
Wright would make an oxplanalion. the latter making his appearance with ari 
American flag in his hand. 'I'he crowd refused to hear him at first, but finally 
the Mayor secured for him a hearing, when Mr. Wright denied that he had made 
the statement atrributed to him. This did not satisfy. A gentleman came 
forward and stated that Mr. Wright said to him, when informed of the President's 
death. "Who's Ibol enough tu kill the damned old fool?" The crowd then •-•ave 
Mr. Wright half an hour to leave the city, and ere that time he was on his^way 
to the New Hampshire line. 

Traitor Mobbed at Swampscott. 

On reception of the news, one George Stone, of Swampscott. said in public, it 
was the best news we had received for four years, and gave three cheers. The 
citizens and soldiers of Swampscott took him by force and tarred and feathered 
him, dragged him through the town in a boat, compelling him to hold the 
American flag over his head, and upon promising to buy an American flao- and 
keep it up during the mourning for the President, at half-mast, he was set at 
liberty. 

BOSTON. 

Weymouth after the Copperheads. 

On Saturday evening last, a body of men waited upon Elijah Arnold, of East 
Braintree, at his home, forced him to come out, make a speech, wave the 
American flag, and give three cheers for the Union. He had uttered treasonablo 
sentiments, and was compelled to retract them. 

An Indignant Congregation? 

The pulpit of the Bapt.st Church in a neighboring town, was supplied yester- 
day by a stranger, who, in all his introductory exercises and sermon, never 
deigned even to mention our national calamity in the death of our good 
President. Immediately after the close of the exercises, a resolution was passed 
by the congregation, pointedly condemning his course, and giving him fifteen 
minutes to leave town. Ile'lcft instanter. This was in Medway village, and th» 
party was Rev. Mr. Massey, of Bellingham, who preached there by excha »ge. 



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MOBBING A REBEL SYMPATHIZER ITT FALL RIVER — HIS 
STORE CLEANED OUT — OTHER OBNOXIOUS PERSONS 
VISITED. 

On receipt of the melancholy news of the assassination of the President, and 
while a large crowd of citizens were gathered aronnd the bulletin-boards, reading 
the dospatches and giving expression to their deep and most heart-felt sorrow, a 
notorious copperhead secesh-sympathizer, and liquor dealer, named Leonard 
•Wood, was heard to declare that it was the best news he had heard for forty 
years.' He had no sooner uttered this atrocious sentiment, than he was seized 
by the indignant bystanders, struck, booted about the streets, and compelled to 
go into a store to procure an American flag, unfurl, and salute it with three 
cheers. He then marched to his store, where he locked himself in; but me 
crowd surrounded his place, and were making preparations to break in, when the 
Mayor and City Marshal appeared and escorted him to the lock-up, where he is 
nov.' confined. The crowd then returned to his store, stove in the windows, and 
smashed things generally. They then visited other copperheads, compelling them 
to show the American flag. 

OHIO. 

Cleveland. 

It seems providentially provided for that some villains are fools— so great fools 
that they parade their villainy before the world. Such was the case of certain 
traitors in Cleveland on Saturday, who were crazy enough to express their joy 
at the murder of the President, and received therefor some very rough treatment 
— ^lo more, however, than their just deserts. 

The case of J. J. Husband, the well-known architect, who occupies an office 
and rooms over Fogg's store, was most prominent. He was in high glee over the 
news, remarking to one man, "You have had your day of rejoicing, now I have 
mine !"' to another, "This is a good day for me !" and to a third, that "Lmcoln's 
death' was a d— d small loss I" It seems that afterwards he became sensible of 
the danger he had incurred by these remarks, for he came sneaking to the news- 
paper offices to deny that he had made them. We have, however, the authority 
of half a dozen rehablc gentlemen, who heard his remarks, against his unsui>- 
portcd assertion. On his way back to his oSice he was assaulted by the crowd, 
but escaped from them. His words were repeated from mouth to month, and the 
indignation of the nuiltitude knew no bounds. The crowd searched the building 
for him. at last finding him on the roof of the building- He was caught, thrown 
(hrou^li the sky-light'' hito his room, and knocked and kicked do^vIl-stairs. The 
mob then set upon him, and would perhaps have pounded him to death had he 
not been rescued by prominent citizens. He was taken to the court-house and 
lodccd up in a room for safe-keeping. He broke out and sneaked off during the 
day. and, we understand, has since left town. He can never show his face again 
in Cleveland. His name has already been chipped from the place on the court- 
house where it was cut as the architect. 

Another man. named James Griffith, from Hamilton, Butler coimty, m this 
State, arrived in town Saturday morning, and, on hearing of the news, said to a 
barber who was shaving him in the Weddell House barber-shop, that " Lincoln 
was a d— d son of a b— h. and ought to have been shot long ago !" Hearing of 
this the mub sturtcd after him. He was taken charge of by Clark Warren and 
others, who carried him to tlie jail. On the way there, however, the mob got at 
liim and pounded him badly. He is now in jail, and ought to stay there for a 
term of months. ♦ 

Another traitor, expressing his joy on Ontario street, Saturday morning, was 
knocked stiff by a little fellow half his size. Other men of southern sympathies 
knew enough to keep closely at home Saturday. Cleveland is an unliealthy place 

i'ur rebels. 

CALIFORNIA. 

Onslaught on the Newspaper Oflaces. 
The news of President Lincoln's assassination created the most intense and 
universal feeling ever witnessed on this coast. It is known already throughout 
the State, wherever the telegraph extends, and everywhere public demonstrations 
of grief and horror prevail. " Business has been entirely suspended here, the bells 
are tolling and private buildings are draped in mourning. The authorities thought 



116 THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN. 

it prudent to take precautions against popular tumults resulting from expressions 
ef joy by secessionists. Several treasonable brawlers were saved from being 
lynched by the jiolice. A mob has just entered the publication offices of the 
Democratic Press, Neivs Letter, Monitor and Occidental, copperhead organs, and 
waptied their contents into the street, amid the applause of an immense crowd. 
A large t)ody of armed police were ordered out to disperse the mob, but arrived 
too late to prevent these acts of violence. Other democratic newspaper offices 
we threatened. 

Treatment of a Taitor at Harrisburg. 

"When the news reached here of the assassination of the President, a man on the 
Blreet gloried in the fact, and made a most obscene remark in regard to the corp:<e. 
The people desired to treat the man in a summary manner, but a guard of soldiers 
took possession of him. This afternoon he was marched through the priuci]ial 
streets to the tune of the Rogue's March, holding in his hand a board with this 
inscription : " William Young, a traitor too cowardly to fight for the Rebels, 
ejects his vulgar venom by insulting the remains of our dead President." 

The soldiers desired to ride him on a rail, but the officers would not allow it. 

On being released he was followed by a large crowd, yeUing and hooting at him, 
treating hun rather roughly. 

PHILADELPHIA. 
Carrying Concealed Deadly Weapons. 

Edward Ingersoll, who resides near Germantown, was arrested yesterday 
morning by officer John Jones, on the charge of carrying a concealed deadly 
weapon, and committing an assault and battery on Captain J. B. Withington, Jr., 
still suffering from a wound received in battle. It seems that the defendant 
entered a car on the 9 o'clock train from Germantown, at Tioga station. A 
number of persons called him a traitor, and as he passed into the smoking car, 
several gentlemen remarking that the presence of a traitor was offensive, he left 
tliat car. The train finally reached the depot, and defendant alighted at Ninth 
and Wallace streets. Captain Withington, of the I'JSth Regiment Pennsylvania 
Volunteers, stepped forward, and, addressing defendant, said, "You ought to 
apologize for yoitr remark made in your speech, that the Southerners were 
chivalric and noble, and were fighting against an odious tyranny." It is alleged 
tliat defendant said, " Go to h — 1." Capt. W. raised his cane, but being an invalid 
could not use it with alacrity. He made a blow at defendant with it, and the 
latter warded it off with his cane, which was broken by the forc^ of the blow. 
Instantly defendant presented a revolver, and in a moment the ciowd closed ii. 
upon him. Officer Jones, who at the same moment was attracted to the spot, 
took Ingersoll into custody, and conducted him to the lockup at Spring Garden 
Hall. The magistrate was sent for, and the hearing progressed, at the conclusion 
of which he asked the defendant if he liad any thing to say, or questions to ask. 
Defendant replied that he pulled the pistol out and cocked it, and the crowd ran 
like sheep. 

Some one said, "You are a liar," and the entire body of spectators made a 
surge towards him, but nobody was hurt. The defendant was committed in 
default to answer the charge as preferred against him. He had only received a 
slight scratch on his face, from a splinter of his own cane. He was taken to the 
county prison yesterday afternoon. A writ of habeas corpus will probably be 
taken out, made returnable to-morrow. 

This fellow has made himself publicly and personally odious, by his treasonable 
gpeeches, ever since the rebellion brokci^ut. 

Another Scene. 
While Edward was in the lockup at Sprnig Garden Hall, he was visited by his 
brother Charles. Upon retiring, some one in the crowd struck him. Charles 
liastened to his carriage, and just as he got in he received a slight blow on the 
head. The driver put the whip to the horses, and off they dashed at a fast speed. 
There was considerable excitement during these proceedings, which hicreased as 
the crowd augmented, but there was no general outbreak. AVe understand that 
a young man quietly procured a rope that had a slip-knot already made in the 
middle. This was intended to be placed over the head of Ingersoll, in vdikh 
event he would probably be strangled to death. His arrest, in all probability, 
saved his hfe, as nobody seemed desirous to interfere with him vhile he was in 
the custody of the law officers. 

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